Steve Holdoway wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:56:54 +1200
> Reg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>   
>> I have a fairly basic installation of Open Suse with KDE on a 40gig hard
>> drive. When I say basic install I mean I have a few games and open
>> office and Thunderbird etc. that installed when I installed Open Suse. I
>> read somewhere on the net that a basic Open Suse install only takes
>> about 3gig.  XP is taking up about 8 gig which only totals 11 gig. This
>> should leave 29 gig free space but I only have about 18gig.
>>
>> This would mean according to my maths that about 10gig is missing. My
>> home dir is currently empty so its not there, but I did delete about
>> 10gig of data from there. Is it possible the deleted stuff is in fact
>> not deleted? The trash bin is also reported empty too.
>>
>> regards
>> Reg
>>     
> fdisk -l /dev/hda should provide some pointers...
>
>   
this is what that gives me:

athlon:~ # fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1020 8193118+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1021 4982 31824765 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1021 1111 730926 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 1112 2670 12522636 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 2671 4982 18571108+ 83 Linux
athlon:~ #


Regards
Reg

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