Hard drives shrank more than weiners' at a Polar Bear Club!
 

I installed Suse 9.2 pro onto my hard drive. When I had it calculate the size of my drives it came back with 2.5 Gig and 10.4 Gig for a 40 Gig and a 120 Gig. Exsqueeze me?!! Did they find the fountain of youth and bacame little more than a twinkle in an engineer's eye?:scratch:


Hmmm...OR, is there another purpose for that "calculate" button? If so, why doesn't it show me what is left in space on my HD?

...Or you didn't partition correctly?

Hmmm...could be...Don't think so though. When I bring up Yast, it shows my full drive though.

What did you use to show the size of your partitions? What does 'df' say? And maybe you could compare this to 'fdisk -l'. One block is 1kb.

What I did was go into "My Computer located on the desktop and picked a hard-drive and right clicked to properties. I then selected "calculate". It took a minute or two and then came up with those figures.

Morbid,
I'm pretty sure what it calculates is the amount of hard drive actually used, not the partition size. df -h gives you more info. To be sure you could compare the value you get from "calculate" and compare it to the output of "df -h".

-NanoJock

I started having a sneaking suspicion this might be the case. I guess I was just too used to Macro$haft's way of doing things. Thank you everyone for your response. I obviously have a lot to learn. However, as long as I don't have to go back to the MS BS, I'm happy.

Next in line:

Learn how to install Transgaming.
Learn how to make my scanner work.
Find a program that will allow me to download pictures from my digital camera, because the provided software doesn't have the driver for it.
Then some day...when I get a clue, I'm going to learn how to upgrade the kernel.

Thanks again everyone. It is forums like this that make it worth the switch.