Off Topic : Lost GB in a Dual Boot System ?!
Hi ! I know this is entirely off topic, but maybe somebody is kind and knowledgable enough to help me anyway :) I recently installed SuSE 9.0 Prof. on a Compaq Presario B1011 laptop which came with Windows XP (Home) already preinstalled. The installation went without a glitch (except for some trouble with the graphics and sound cards, and the fact that the modem is only a softmodem :() but when it came to partitioning the hard drive, the installation routine told me that I could only create a 4GB partition for SuSE and that I should defragment the drive under Windows (NTFS) to obtain a bigger partition. I continued the installation, and after some days, defragmented the drive under Windows. Using yast2, I then reduced the Windows Partition in size to 26 GB and created another partition for SuSE, which works just fine. However, Windows now tells me that its own partition only has 20 GB, and when, under SuSE, I cd into the Windows partition and then type df, it says the same. The yast partitioning tool however, insists that the Windows partition is actually 26 GB in size. Adding up the results of the df command for all partitions accessible in SuSE, I end up with just over 30 GB, while yast says (and I know the notebook came with a 40 GB hdd) the drive has a capacity of 37 GB. My question is : Where are these missing 7 GB, and how can I get them back for Windows ? Any help would be appreciated ! Bye, Jörg
Hello remote, what about a realname? Am Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2004 10:43 schrieb remote:
[...] Using yast2, I then reduced the Windows Partition in size to 26 GB and created another partition for SuSE, which works just fine. However, Windows now tells me that its own partition only has 20 GB,
Maybe it eats up some GB for internal file system informations. But the difference of 6 GB is a little bit too much for such data... You should ask this question on a Windows list ;-)
[...] The yast partitioning tool however, insists that the Windows partition is actually 26 GB in size.
YaST just calculates the size between start and end of the partition and ignores the filesystems.
Adding up the results of the df command for all partitions accessible in SuSE, I end up with just over 30 GB,
Like NTFS, all filesystems need some space for internal information (directory listing, journal, ...) - this space is not available for user data.
while yast says (and I know the notebook came with a 40 GB hdd) the drive has a capacity of 37 GB.
I can explain at least the difference between 37 and 40 GB: The 40 GB are "Marketing-GBs" (1000*1000*1000 Bytes), YaST tells you "real GBs" (1024*1024*1024 Bytes). I just wonder why RAM is sold in "real MBs" - seems the marketing experts didn't recognice this yet ;-)) Yours, Christian Boltz PS: no random sig today ;-) -- [Unterschied zwischen "echten" MB (1024 kB) und "Marketing-MB" (1000 kB] Wundert mich, daß Media Markt das noch nicht als Marktlücke entdeckt hat :-) 537 MB-Speichermodule als Ersatz für herkömmliche 512 MB Module für noch mehr Leistung - garantiert überall lauffähig, wo auch die normalen 512 MB Module laufen *vbeg* [Adalbert Michelic in suse-linux-faq]
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