Hi All,
I just got a MSI Wind u100 linux version.
Once I login to SUSE Linux (It only has Suse Linux Enterprise Edition) and look at the hard drive used numbers I get the following information
50GB Used and total capcity as 62 GB !
There are two strange numbers here:
Can you please help?
Regards,
Ram
ramishuman wrote:
> Hi All, I just got a MSI Wind u100 linux version. Once I login to
> SUSE Linux (It only has Suse Linux Enterprise Edition) and look at
> the hard drive used numbers I get the following information
>
> 50GB Used and total capcity as 62 GB !
>
> There are two strange numbers here: - Why does Suse linux without
> any of my files take 50 GB? Is this normal? - Why is my total Hard
> Disk space shown as 62 GB? (Atleast it should show 70-75 GB isn’t
> it?)
>
> Can you please help?
>
> Regards, Ram
>
>
first: let me welcome you to the community, if this is your first use
of Linux, or SUSE Linux…
then: let me suggest you not get in a big hurry to replace that “only
has Suse Linux Enterprise Edition” because the less you do to it the
more stable it will be 
if you wanna, you can spend just a few hours ‘upgrading’ and then
join the others here scratching their head and asking how to return
to a reliable system…
your machines hard drive report indeed sounds strange (i have here a
pretty full install of openSUSE in less than 8 Gigs…so ???)…
lets see what might be going on…open a terminal (know how to do
that? if not, ask!) and type in these TWO commands (one at a time,
and press enter after each) then copy paste the results back to the
forum…
df -h --print-type
cat /proc/partitions
and, about those missing Gs, some laptop manufacturers ‘hide’ a
partition which includes special utilities for the machine…usually
there is a note about that in the documentation which tells you how
to access that area during boot up…check your docs and see…
–
see caveat: http://tinyurl.com/6aagco
DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via NNTP, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, KDE
3.5.7, SUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.18-0.2-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
Thanks for your reply,
Here are the results
for the df command:
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ext3 20G 6.8G 12G 37% /
udev tmpfs 1009M 140K 1009M 1% /dev
for the cat:
n011:~ # cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 78150744 sda
8 1 20988922 sda1
8 2 2104515 sda2
8 3 9767520 sda3
8 4 45287235 sda4
Now I am totally confused looking at all this outputs.
Regards,
Ram
> for the df command:
> Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 ext3 20G 6.8G 12G 37% /
> udev tmpfs 1009M 140K 1009M 1% /dev
>
>
> for the cat:
> n011:~ # cat /proc/partitions
> major minor #blocks name
>
> 8 0 78150744 sda
> 8 1 20988922 sda1
> 8 2 2104515 sda2
> 8 3 9767520 sda3
> 8 4 45287235 sda4
>
> Now I am totally confused looking at all this outputs.
me too, a little…
first, in the cat output:
the first line (with the 0) says you have about 78GB
available…[an 80GB drive never actually gives exactly 80GB…read
elsewhere why]
second line (1) is the 20GB partition listed in the df command’s
output line two (/dev/sda1) as having your linux system, but only
used is 6.8 GB and 12 GB free!! whoo-whooo!!
i think the third line (2) is the same as the last line in the
df output (udev) mounted at /dev
that leaves two partitions (from the cat output) apparently unused
(unmounted) and unexplained…together they comprise about 50GB
i have NO idea what might be on them…and certainly do not know why
they were not used…i can GUESS they are formatted with NTFS (or
some other M$ evil)…
others (smarter than me) will have to take you further (and, correct
any mistakes i made)…
i think i would do:
–
see caveat: http://tinyurl.com/6aagco
DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via NNTP, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, KDE
3.5.7, SUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.18-0.2-default #1 SMP i686 athlon