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
