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Old 03-14-2005, 08:16 PM   #1
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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?


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?

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Old 03-14-2005, 09:26 PM   #2
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...Or you didn't partition correctly?
 
Old 03-15-2005, 11:30 AM   #3
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Hmmm...could be...Don't think so though. When I bring up Yast, it shows my full drive though.
 
Old 03-15-2005, 11:49 AM   #4
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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.
 
Old 03-15-2005, 02:36 PM   #5
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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.
 
Old 03-15-2005, 02:44 PM   #6
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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".

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Old 03-15-2005, 05:16 PM   #7
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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.
 
  


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