richard bown wrote:
Hi looks like I have a problem with the install, the Hard drive is 160 GB maxtor. df shows:-
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda8 19799452 3567816 16231636 19% / udev 648364 208 648156 1% /dev /dev/hda6 72474968 4839420 67635548 7% /home /dev/hdb1 80027764 8394940 71632824 11% /windows/C /dev/sda1 126720 89460 37260 71% /media/disk
hdb is another HD so hda8 is about 20 GB hda6 aprox 72 GB swap is aprox 1.5 GB
Partition info
hda1 1.3 linux native 0-179 hda2 151.2 extended 180-19928 hda5 10.5 lin native 180-1558 wasted hda6 69.1 lin native /home 1559-10581 hda7 49.9 lin native 10582-17107 wasted hda8 18.8 lin native / 17464-19928 hda9 1.5 swap hda10 1.1 lin native 17311-`17463 wasted
From my new use of Suse coming from another distro, the Suse partitioner seems to work on free space above and not below the active partition. Any ideas on reclaiming the 60 GB, or is it better to reinstall as there is only a few of the apps I have to build installed ?
Richard, you are "missing" only ~4GB and not 60G. hda2 is the extended partition which is the sum of hda5 - hda10 = 150.9G but this is only because what is shown above has been rounded. hda2 + hda1 = 152.2G. The size of Ks differs depending on where you are looking at them :-( . I think here 1K = ~1024 bytes so that 152.2 x 1.024 = 155.9GB which means that the actual difference from 160GB is only down to ~4G. As root and from a console type "fdisk -l /dev/hda" (without the quotes) and see what shows up. My Maxtors are 250G each and fdisk is showing that they each total 245.1G (hda1 + hda5). 245.1 x 1.024 = 251.0G: Disk /dev/hda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 37 297171 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 38 30515 244814535 5 Extended /dev/hda5 38 585 4401778+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 586 1011 3421813+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda7 1012 13632 101378151 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda8 13633 26253 101378151 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda9 26254 30435 33591883+ 83 Linux /dev/hda10 30436 30515 642568+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com