Hi,
I have a created a logical partition sda5 in ubuntu server 9.0.4.
which is
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00053d78

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1217 1702 3903795 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 1703 30401 230524717+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1703 30401 230524686 83 Linux

formatted the device as mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda5
then i mounted it on to a directory which belongs to root user.

once I mounted the /dev/sda5 device on to a local directory.
I am seeing that the filesystem size is way too difference than what i have created.
/dev/sda5 10325748 1098212 8703016 12% /var/lib/vmware/vmwarehosts

Can somebody please let me know where i am going wrong here. why am i not seeing the full 230 gigs which shows in fdisk.