hdd space missing after install.

Just installed open suse onto a laptop that previously had windows 7 installed. I deleted the windows partition during the install but I still get the option to boot into windows at startup. Also in opensuse my hdd size is showing as 116 gb even though it’s a 250gb drive so a load of space is missing.

I want to remove windows completely from this machine and just have a single partition for opensuse. Please how is this possible?

First you should not use Automatic configuration.

At some point during the install, a partitioning proposal is done. That is most probaly not the one you want. Click around there a bit. Maybe you should go Expert mode there first. But somewhere you can choose: Use the whole disk (or similart wording). Then the installer will make a new partitioning proposal that will ignore everything that is om the disk and will include a Swap, root and /home partition. The latter taking all that is left on the disk after taking of a decent Swap and root partition. All else will be wiped and no dual boot will be created.

On 2012-06-19 13:36, Derek9753 wrote:

> I want to remove windows completely from this machine and just have a
> single partition for opensuse. Please how is this possible?

Guessing, because you did not print your partition table, you did not tell
the installation to use the entire disk.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

just have a single partition for opensuse

I skipped more or less over this remark from you. My idea is that you want openSUSE as the one and only system on that machine. And I (and Carlos) showed you how to do this.

I can not fit this in with your “a single partition” idea. Why would you want that? It is possible, but quite unusual. The installation default is three (as I mentioned above) and that is a good default. You realy must have good reasons to deviate from that.

On 2012-06-19 15:16, hcvv wrote:

> I can not fit this in with your “a single partition” idea. Why would
> you want that? It is possible, but quite unusual. The installation
> default is three (as I mentioned above) and that is a good default. You
> realy must have good reasons to deviate from that.

And I would propose one extra partition, about 10 GiB, for a test
partition. There I test the next distribution.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

I would not bother beginners with those fineries. That is waht II called above “good reasons”. But then you should realy know how to handle that.

You may think different of course.

On 2012-06-19 16:06, hcvv wrote:
>
> I would not bother beginners with those fineries. That is waht II called
> above “good reasons”. But then you should realy know how to handle that.
>
> You may think different of course.

You are right, of course: for a beginner it is excessive. But people learn,
with time; then repartitioning becomes difficult.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)