On 23 June 2010 at 00:57 Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> You'd think, looking at that, that much of sda's space is not being > used. You can use fdisk(8) to list the partitions on each drive. The > size of each unit is given in the preamble. > > sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda > sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Thanks. This shows up even more: > sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 4001 MB, 4001292288 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 486 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 300 2409718+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 301 484 1477980 83 Linux /dev/sda3 485 485 8032+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda4 486 486 8032+ ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) /> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 4026 MB, 4026531840 bytes 31 heads, 30 sectors/track, 8456 cylinders Units = cylinders of 930 * 512 = 476160 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 9 8457 3928064 b W95 FAT32 > It could be sda has a partition that isn't being mounted so it's > available for use. I don't know about being available for use, but there are at least three partitions that aren't accessible to everyday users. I'll definitely think about an upgrade to UNR. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-07-06 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
