what's going on with my hard drive??

bookgekgom · 12-27-2006, 04:25 PM

i installed fedora core 6 on 2x250gb hard drives.(basically total 450gb since 1 gb isn 1gb)
i understand it took 2gb for swap memory....
but i look at how much free space i got...
it says...
420gb is free over 460gb
omg
i installed only beryl....
linux took 40 gb to install? that cant be possible...
i installed with only a dvd which was only 4 gb
where are my spaces????
T_T
is this error?
my pc isn getting slow but i am kinda upset about how much spcae fc 6 took away from my hard drives.
u know i can download 4 anime series in 20gb....
is it possible it took that much cuz i installed all window managers? gnome, kde, etc?
hm....
this sound pretty noobish but plz answer me...how much space ur system take?

nightshade_1977 · 12-27-2006, 04:56 PM

I'm not really familure with FC but I don't think it should take 40 GB.
4GB yeah, I've seen that.

how did you setup your partitions
i had a problem using gparted that cause me to have to reformat the entire drive cause it showed I was using about 90GB of a 120GB drive but I knew that I was only using about 45GB turned out that when I was adjusting the partitions the data did not read correctly and tricked the system into thinking there was more then there was
that is the only thing I can think of for 40GB being used for the install

sorry I could not be more help but I'm a newbee and still learning myself

pixellany · 12-27-2006, 05:07 PM

During installation, you have the option of setting the partition size. If you just take one of the defaults, I'm not sure what happens.
It may be that the easiest solution is to simply re-install and use the manual partitioning option.

bookgekgom · 12-28-2006, 04:11 AM

oh no....i just installed by default....
grrr
and im using lvm....
T_T
i really need to reformat?
my anime....T_T

Clemente · 12-28-2006, 04:34 AM

Hi,
unfortunately, your filesystems (don't know what you are using) take their amount for organizational structures (inode tables, free lists etc), too.
Clemente

pixellany · 12-28-2006, 06:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bookgekgom

oh no....i just installed by default....
grrr
and im using lvm....
T_T
i really need to reformat?
my anime....T_T

This does not make a lot of sense....What is "T_T"?
It is better to use complete sentences.

Let's not dwell on how you got where you are. What is the current situation and how do you want it configured?
Are some files missing?

waelaltaqi · 12-28-2006, 01:43 PM

i think that you missed partitioned your system when you installed FC. FC6 or 5 or redhat or whatever will not take that much space. FC6 will take less than 4 GB if you installed it full.
to solve your problem, were going to use parted command to view the partition table. parted is a utlity that partition your hardrive, label it and create the file system.

from the shell type:

Code:

[root@mail conf]# parted

you should get this output:

Code:

(parted)

type print and you should get output similar to this:

Code:

(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0kB - 21GB
Disk label type: msdos
Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
1       32kB    15GB    15GB    primary   ext3         boot
2       15GB    21GB    5536MB  extended
5       15GB    21GB    5536MB  logical   linux-swap

so in my case, i have one primary 15GB partition and another 533MB running as swap.

you can do the math and you can find out where you missed that space

Wael

bookgekgom · 12-28-2006, 02:32 PM

[root@localhost /]# part
bash: part: command not found
[root@localhost /]# parted
bash: parted: command not found
[root@localhost /]#
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------result.
i used LVM. to partition my hard drive...
is there any other way to veiw what is taking so much space other then "parted"?
cuz that is not working...

waelaltaqi · 12-28-2006, 02:45 PM

well i guess that parted is not installed on your system which is quit sureprising. try to install parted by doing the following:

Code:

yum install parted

or let's try fdisk to view the partition table although it's not going to give you the exact size of the partition but you can figure if there is something missing between the blocks.... try this:

Code:

[root@mail conf]# fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2498.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 20.5 GB, 20547841536 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2498 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1825    14659281   83  Linux
/dev/hda2            1826        2498     5405872+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5            1826        2498     5405841   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Wael