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Old 10-12-2011, 01:56 PM   #1
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disk space and access apartition


Please hlpe me understand wht is my total dis storage ,

I was said its 160GB and to find I used the command ds-h
Code:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1              30G   28G  852M  98% /
/dev/sda1              99M   22M   73M  23% /boot
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
I can see partition /dev/sdb1 has 30 Gb and /dev/sda1 has 99m

but this is not 160Gb ? or am I missing anything?


and please tell me how to access the partition /dev/sdb1

I tried cd /dev/sdb1 but there is no such directory , please advice me.
 
Old 10-12-2011, 02:09 PM   #2
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hm, well /dev/sdb and /dev/sda should be two different disks. and you haven't listed the swap partition (presumably you have one).

/dev/sdb1 is your 'root' partition to access it, use:

cd /
 
Old 10-12-2011, 02:12 PM   #3
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Can you post the output of (as root):
Code:
fdisk -l
(That's lower case L)
 
Old 10-12-2011, 02:13 PM   #4
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hm, well /dev/sdb and /dev/sda should be two different disks. and you haven't listed the swap partition (presumably you have one).

/dev/sdb1 is your 'root' partition to access it, use:

cd /
thanks for reply, the two disks space obviously is lesser than 160Gb am I right ?

I tried running command swapon -a ,no result does it mean there is no swap partition ?

---------- Post added 10-12-11 at 03:14 PM ----------

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Can you post the output of (as root):
Code:
fdisk -l
(That's lower case L)


Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 131 MB, 131604480 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 125 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         102      104432   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 38.4 GB, 38477859840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4678 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        3917    31463271   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            3918        4676     6096667+   5  Extended
/dev/sdb5            3918        4676     6096636   82  Linux swap / Solaris
 
Old 10-12-2011, 02:22 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by fachhoch@gmail.com View Post
hlpe me understand wht is my total dis storage ,
Looks like 38477859840 bytes.

Quote:
I was said its 160GB
Who told you it is 160GB? Did they provide any evidence?

You have some kind of drive, identified as sda, that is only an eighth of one GB. I expect that is an old flash drive, but maybe it is a very old disk drive or some strange boot area in the motherboard.

You have a disk drive that seems to be about 38GB. You have about 6GB on that 38GB drive reserved for swap space. I can't tell whether that swap space is properly mounted.

It is possible for a Host Protected Area or other obscure issue to make a drive look like it is much smaller than its correct size. But I wouldn't start with a guess of some strange issue like that. I'd start with the guess that you were misinformed about the disk size.

Last edited by johnsfine; 10-12-2011 at 02:33 PM.
 
Old 10-12-2011, 02:30 PM   #6
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Yeah, as johnsfine said, it'd definitely NOT a 160GB drive.

To access /dev/sdb1, you can: cd /
Well, most of your system and your home directory is on /dev/sdb1.
To access /dev/sda1, you can: cd /boot
 
  


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