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