Re: [Dorset] Disk size in Asus EEE

2010-06-24 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday 23 Jun 2010, Sean Gibbins wrote: As I recall UNR was a non-starter for EeePC 700 - slow to the point of being unusable, possibly on account of it being optimised for other hardware (Intel Atom?), or simply due to the lack of resources on the EeePC. Was that with an earlier

Re: [Dorset] Disk size in Asus EEE

2010-06-23 Thread Bob Dunlop
On Tue, Jun 22 at 09:15, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: I'm getting a bit confused with the diskspace available on my mother's Asus EEE 700. By default, these came with a 4G flash drive and I've added a 4G SD card. Xandros seems to have appended the SD Card to the original 4G, because the

Re: [Dorset] Disk size in Asus EEE

2010-06-23 Thread d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
  On 23 June 2010 at 09:38 Bob Dunlop bob.dun...@xyzzy.org.uk wrote: I've not used a 700 but I'm guessing disk space is about right.  The initial 4G (sda) will also have big chunks reserved for swap and the Xandros recovery partition.  Hence only 1.4G for the user.   Yes. I've now discovered

Re: [Dorset] Disk size in Asus EEE

2010-06-23 Thread d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
On 23 June 2010 at 00:57 Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote: You'd think, looking at that, that much of sda's space is not being used.  You can use fdisk(8) to list the partitions on each drive.  The size of each unit is given in the preamble.      sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda      sudo

Re: [Dorset] Disk size in Asus EEE

2010-06-23 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 23/06/10 17:29, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: I'll definitely think about an upgrade to UNR. As I recall UNR was a non-starter for EeePC 700 - slow to the point of being unusable, possibly on account of it being optimised for other hardware (Intel Atom?), or simply due to the lack of

[Dorset] Disk size in Asus EEE

2010-06-22 Thread d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
I'm getting a bit confused with the diskspace available on my mother's Asus EEE 700. By default, these came with a 4G flash drive and I've added a 4G SD card.   Xandros seems to have appended the SD Card to the original 4G, because the Disk Utility (a GUI tool in the Settings tab) says that all

Re: [Dorset] Disk size in Asus EEE

2010-06-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, /home/user df -h Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs                1.4G  841M  508M  63% / /dev/sda1             1.4G  841M  508M  63% / unionfs               1.4G  841M  508M  63% / tmpfs Â