Anaconda loses ~100 GByte of disk when installing Fedora 12, was "Part of hard disk disappeared..."

Greetings,

I have looked a little more into the system I just installed, so now I am
posting the same issue I mentioned in that other thread, but hopefully in
a clearer form.

I had this 350 GByte SATA disk which had Fedora 9 on it, on several
separate partitions filling the whole disk, called /dev/sdaN and mounted
on:

/
/boot
/home
/mydata
swap

Monday I installed Fedora 12 x86_64 on that disk, accepting all the
defaults. Installation went OK, but I ended up with a disk that (see
command outputs below) has logical volumes containing swap, /boot on
/dev/sda1, / on /dev/sda2, for a total space, if I understand correctly,
of only 250 GB.

What happened and why? Where are those missing ~100 GBytes, and how do I
recover them without reinstalling from scratch?

TIA,
Marco

Partition section of anaconda.ks.cfg:

selinux --enforcing
timezone --utc Europe/Rome
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append=" LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=lata
rcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=it rhgb quiet"
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
#clearpart --linux --drives=sda
#volgroup vg_polaris --pesize=4096 pv.Va9Oqd-UJyY-X6Xx-9Ftm-5eVV-KviL-ppzUpG
#logvol / --fstype=ext4 --name=lv_root --vgname=vg_polaris --grow --size=1024
#logvol swap --name=lv_swap --vgname=vg_polaris --grow --size=1024
--maxsize=9936

#part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=200
#part pv.Va9Oqd-UJyY-X6Xx-9Ftm-5eVV-KviL-ppzUpG --grow --size=1


#############################################################

[root@polaris ~]# pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda2
VG Name vg_polaris
PV Size 232.69 GB / not usable 673.00 KB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 59568
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 59568
PV UUID Va9Oqd-UJyY-X6Xx-9Ftm-5eVV-KviL-ppzUpG

##############################################################

[root@polaris ~]# vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name vg_polaris
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 3
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 2
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 232.69 GB
PE Size 4.00 MB
Total PE 59568
Alloc PE / Size 59568 / 232.69 GB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID iLl1Si-AWSN-S3CQ-LQAj-QjcY-B8EL-TubYBG

###############################################################

[root@polaris ~]# lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg_polaris/lv_root
VG Name vg_polaris
LV UUID B5afnx-i2RR-MOCe-ygYh-Ty7q-aYPU-M9i5dN
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 222.98 GB
Current LE 57084
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:0

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg_polaris/lv_swap
VG Name vg_polaris
LV UUID t91zEa-CtPu-rM0p-qy3I-SLFu-bn72-frH9Md
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 9.70 GB
Current LE 2484
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:1



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