On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:15:19 +1200 Reg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
... so you have 2 partitions allocated to filesystems for linux, /dev/hda6 and /dev/hda7, at 12.8GB and 19GB respectively. df will shouw you which are mounted. I expect that /dev/hda6 is the root partition, and /dev/hda7 is ( or is intended to be ) /home. Steve
