SuSE not seeing full hard drive

SuSE05 · 04-22-2005, 07:48 PM

I've got a 160 gig HD and only 149 gigs are being used. I can't even see the remaining 11 gigs in YaST.

SuSE 9.2 (2.6.8-24) on a 160 gig Seagate HD.

I previously had Windows XP installed on a small 20 gig partition, but formatted it during my latest install. I thought Linux would detect the entire volume of the hard drive and format accordingly - but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Thoreau · 04-22-2005, 08:32 PM

Linux did detect the entire volume and formatted it accordingly. By common sense and policy, it doesn't wipe out your windows partitions until you manually tell it to.

SuSE05 · 04-22-2005, 08:33 PM

yes... I DID tell it too - I selected "format entire drive" option. It should be showing up as a total of 159 gigs - but it's only showing up as 149 gigs.

Thoreau · 04-22-2005, 09:04 PM

No. Do an expert/manual partition. It will not overwrite your windows partition. But it will oeverwrite blank/linux partitions. Do the partitioning manually.

SuSE05 · 04-22-2005, 09:20 PM

ahh ok cool - thanks.