I'm using ubuntu dapper drake, and I want to reformat everything and install kubuntu fiesty fawn.
I repartitioned my second hard-drive (because it had some gimp fat32 partition for some reason), and then I copied all the data I wanted to keep onto it. Nautilus says that's 31.9 GB worth.

I booted from the kubuntu cd and was in the process of installing when I noticed that it only said 7.64 GB were being used on that hard drive.

I rebooted into ubuntu to check. Nautilus says there's 31.9 GB on that harddrive, but QTparted says there's only 7.64 GB.


Is my data on the 2nd harddrive despite what qtparted says? Will my data be there after I completely reformat the first harddrive and install kubuntu on the first harddrive?

Also, why does Nautilus split my second harddrive into hdb1 and hdb2? I formated it as one partition.
Plus, natilus says there's only 116.9 GB between hdb1 & hdb2, when qtparted says there's 149.05.

Also, I apologize if this has been asked before. I did search, but those posts didn't make any sense to me.

I'm not much of a fan of the GUIs, but I'm having a bit of a problem working out what you're saying. Let's see the output from the following commands entered at a (Dapper) terminal(that's a lower case ell in te first command; will require your password)

Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 6421 51576651 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 6422 24194 142761622+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 24195 24321 1020127+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 19457 156288321 83 Linux
yxven@Banana-jr-2000:~$ df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 ext3 135G 85G 43G 67% /
varrun tmpfs 252M 132K 252M 1% /var/run
varlock tmpfs 252M 4.0K 252M 1% /var/lock
udev tmpfs 252M 148K 252M 1% /dev
devshm tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
lrm tmpfs 252M 19M 234M 8% /lib/modules/2.6.15-28-386/volatile
/dev/hda1 ntfs 50G 13G 37G 26% /media/hda1
/dev/hda1 fuse 50G 13G 37G 26% /media/hda1

hda1 is a window's partition I'm going to get rid of.

Pity - I was expecting you to have the second drives partition mounted. Mount it and let's see the the df again - pls use code tags in the reply; makes it read-able.

Sorry

Now hdb1 is empty and my files are gone (although they're elsewhere on the hard drive).
Nautilus still reports hdb2, although I can't seem to mount it.

Do you want to explain the bit in brackets in that sentence ???. Which hard drive ???.

Presuming you have done no reformatting/repartitionining between the posts above, there is no hdb2; hdb1 occupies the entire drive.
As for the data, who knows, but it sure don't look like it's on that second drive.
I'd be inclined to re-copy the data, unmount and re-mount it, then have a look to see if it's still there (on hdb1).

Sorry, I meant to say it's still on the first hard drive.

I will try copying it on then mounting/ remounting.

Thank you. It works now.

Hey, I didn't do anything, you did...
Just basic problem determination.

Glad it all worked out.