newbie done something daft installing 11 over 10.3

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Hi, I did have suse 10.3 and windows installed on a dual boot system. I just copied the live CD for Suse 11 and installed it following the recommended procedures. I kind of figured that Suse 11 would automatically identify windows was already present (it did when I installed 10.3). It doesn’t appear to have done that. That however is not my chief worry. When I checked for disk space

linux@linux:~> df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                  378M  128K  378M   1% /dev
gvfs-fuse-daemon      378M  339M   40M  90% /home/linux/.gvfs

I get a worryingly small amount of space, fdisk gives me the following output;

linux:/home/linux # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x49c03105

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1045     8393931   27  Unknown
/dev/sda2   *        1046       10161    73224270    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           10162       19457    74670120    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5           10162       10330     1357461   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6           10331       12941    20972826   83  Linux
/dev/sda7           12942       19457    52339738+  83  Linux

I dont know how to interpret this, it just looks dodgy that I only have a few Meg available with regard to df. I have the feeling I have seriously cocked up the partitioning by accepting the default.

Any advice greatly appreciated,

Adam

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Hmmmmm… After some quick googlin’, it appears that gvfs is a virtual file system enabling you to mount network folders locally. Two possible things come to mind about the partition being almost full: either it’s merely reflecting the situation in your network drive which is almost full, or the network files are being cached locally until local cache is almost full. Other than that… we’d need a networking guru who understands all the bits and pieces of gvfs fuse.
Anyway, if I was worried about the partition being full, I’d simply unmount all network drives - I work with samba shares all the time and never once needed to actually mount one: I just browse to the particular drive I need to access, when I need to access it. It’s just a few clicks away.

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It was a very stupid mistake, but in case anyone else does it I shall admit that I had not taken the live cd out after the first use. I guess that somehow or another it was showing me the df on the disk or some such thing.

Sorry - should not be installing so late at night whilst half asleep!

Adam