I've recently installed SUSE 10 on an HP Pavilion and it actually went well. YAST shows a Disk Space Warning as follows:
"/windows/D 93% used 5.52 GB Free 379.8 mb total 5.89"
The Expert Partitioner (which I am not) shows me the following:
Device Size F Type Mount
/dev/hdb 111.7 GB WDC-WD12008JB-75CRA0
/dev/hdb1 39.1 MB Dell Utility
/dev/hdb2 92.1 GB HPFS/NTFS /windows/C
/dev/hdb3 19.5 GB Extended
/dev/hdb5 1.0 GB Linux swap swap
/dev/hdb6 7.4 GB Linux native /data1
/dev/sda 186.3 GB Maxtor-6L200M0
/dev/sda1 5.8 GB Win95 FAT32 /windows/D
/dev/sda2 180.4 GB HPFS/NTFS /windows/E

The computer is currently a dual boot running Vista Home Premium and SUSE 10.

Maybe the warning I receive doesn't matter, I don't know enough to know. My inclination is to allocate more room to SUSE 10 or less to Vista. As you can see sda2 has tons of space available. Any recommendation and assistance is much appreciated. Thanks

I'm no suse expert but I am quite sur it's warning you about a windows file system being almost full


/windows/D 93% used 5.52 GB Free 379.8 mb total 5.89"
This is only saying you have 379.8 MB left on the drive and nothing else.


second partition of Secondary master IDE
/dev/hdb2 92.1 GB HPFS/NTFS /windows/C

First partition of first SATA disk
/dev/sda1 5.8 GB Win95 FAT32 /windows/D

Second partition of first SATA disk
/dev/sda2 180.4 GB HPFS/NTFS /windows/E

Nothing to worry about.
-Ed

I have the same problem since I installed SuSE 10.2. I am running Vista Bussiness now (before I had Win XP Pro)and SuSE 10.3A2. I have two HDD, one 80GB WD NTFS partition, where I have both systems, and a Maxtor 40GB FAT 32, where I have my files, which can be accessed from both systems.In Windows Maxtor shows 27GB of free space, and I can copy there more than 5 full video DVDs. It is completely opposite situation in SuSE. What SuSE shows is that there is only 6MB of free space. And i really can not copy a file larger than that on the disc. I was trying to resolve the problem, I posted a thread or two here, but no answer was found.
I have checked the disk (in windows) with Diskeeper, with other disk checking programs, but no error was found ???

First SUSE can't normally write to NTFS partitions.

However you CAN now. Download both FUSE version 2.6.3 and ntfs-3g version 1.0 and install them.

Mount the windows partitions now as

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /windows/D or whatever.

(first of course unmount with umount if the partitions are already mounted. To see what's mounted just as root type mount -l).

Now you can WRITE to your NTFS partitions.

If SUSE only shows 8MB free space you need to delete some stuff from the Linux partitions including /home or allocate more space. Look for rubbish in /tmp directories or ensure thetrashbin is emptied.

Cheers

-K

Hi 1kyle, I am not trying to write on NTFS partition, but I would like to know why the difference between windows and SuSE reading of free space on the FAT32 separate disk when free space reading from windows is 29GB free while there is only 900MBwhen reading in SuSE.

You say that sda is 186.3 GB, 5.8 GB for FAT32 and 180.4 for NTFS.

/dev/sda 186.3 GB Maxtor-6L200M0
/dev/sda1 5.8 GB Win95 FAT32 /windows/D
/dev/sda2 180.4 GB HPFS/NTFS /windows/E

If Windows thinks the FAT32 is 29 GB, how big does it think the NTFS partition is and how big is the drive really? My first thought is to backup your data from D: and E: and recreate your partitions and reformat them and then see what you get from Linux and Windows.

Thank You,