Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 17:09, SnapafunFrank wrote:
 Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
 Warnings well heeded.  I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake
  now - no just kidding.
 
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda
 
 The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
 There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
 and could in certain setups cause problems with:
 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
 
 Command (m for help): p
 
 Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
 Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

 Please understand my notes to your table here. Is this what you were
 after? Strictly your call here.

Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
[ Franks approx partition sizes ] /dev/hda1   *   1
 236418988798+   7  HPFS/NTFS   [19gig ] /dev/hda2 
2423486519623397+   5  Extended [20gig ]
  /dev/hda524233186 6136798+  83  Linux
 [6gig] ~ [ This is your root partition ] /dev/hda64808
 4854  377496   83  Linux   [350MB ]
  /dev/hda748554865   88326   82  Linux swap   
[82MB ] /dev/hda831873326 1124518+  82 
  Linux swap  [1.1gig ] /dev/hda933274807   
  11896101   83  Linux [12gig - wow, wish I could
  afford this much] ~ [ This is your /home partition ]
 
 Partition table entries are not in disk order
 
 I can breathe now I am out of fdisk!
 
 regards
 Rosemary

 OK Rosemary, I need to study this a little but for now see what I see.

 You have a 40gig hard drive:

 You have 7 ( note ~ seven ) partitions:

 You have only 1 primary partition ~ you ought to have 3 but not
 essential: more about this later.

 You have only 1 ( one ) logic partition ~ you are allowed up to 16 last
 I heard:

 You therefore have 1 ( all you are allowed I believe ) extended
 partition ~ it is within this partition that you have your logic
 partitions:

 You have 2 swap partitions ~ no idea why you have two when one is enough
 especially when one of them appears huge.

 ( Don't mind me rambling on here ~ I'm working out loud.)

 Generally the rules here are:

 No more than 4 primary partitions with only one of them being made an
 extended partition in which you can have up to 16 logic ( LBA ) partitions.

 You can have as many swap partitions as you like though usually one is
 enough.

 Partition numbering is:
  primary 1 ~ 4 ( includes the extended partition )
  With LBA partitions numbering 5 ~ say 16

 The only partitions you have correct here are:

 /dev/hda1 *  [ Your WinXP partition and the * means it is bootable ]
 /dev/hda1 [ One of  your swap partitions and I say this is correct
 because it appears to be of the correct size ~ Usually no more than 1.5
 times your RAM size if it is under 512MB ]

 Now lets take your df printf: [ printf is syntax for echo or in other words
 ~ what you see returned to the screen when you issue a command seeking
 info. ]

 FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

 /dev/hda5 5.8G  1.7G  3.9G  30% /[ My rough math for
 the above table isn't to far off here afterall.]

 /dev/hda9  12G  170M   12G   2% /home [ You must work out what
 you really will be using here because this is far to big at present  ~ 
 only 170MB of 12000MB used so far.]

 SO.

 Your WinXP partition does not get mounted when you boot up ~ you may prefer
 this but fstab has it entered.

 Your hda6 partition doesn't get mounted so we need to discover which
 directory this relates to. [ See below ]

 Your hda8, in my opinion is just wasted space at present.

 Please try this:

 Go KConfigure Your DesktopPartitions  and tell me what you see
 there. If there is more there than /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda9, ( should at
 least be /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8 ),
   then please make a note of what partitions are there AND what there
 sizes are, ( Usually in megabytes ~ [ MB ] ), as this will save having
 to work out partition sizes using the
   number of blocks reported by the fdisk command. { Went back and did
 that anyway but am still curious ]

 Another thing to do is to mount that /dev/hda6 partition to find out
 what it is. So do as su:

 # mkdir /mnt/hda6
 # mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6  [ If this gives you errors then stop here
 and let me know what those errors are. ]
 # cd /mnt/hda6
 # ls
 Look at any directories listed here ( other than lost  found ) and tell
 me what they are please.

 Not trying to crowd you so will stop here and await your replies.

Okay - first up:
during the install, I selected the partitions that Mandrake preselected - 
which is what I was advised 

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 17:09, SnapafunFrank wrote:
 

Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
   

Warnings well heeded.  I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake
now - no just kidding.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
 (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 

Please understand my notes to your table here. Is this what you were
after? Strictly your call here.
   

 Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
 [ Franks approx partition sizes ] /dev/hda1   *   1
  236418988798+   7  HPFS/NTFS   [19gig ] /dev/hda2 
 2423486519623397+   5  Extended [20gig ]
/dev/hda524233186 6136798+  83  Linux
  [6gig] ~ [ This is your root partition ] /dev/hda64808
  4854  377496   83  Linux   [350MB ]
/dev/hda748554865   88326   82  Linux swap   
 [82MB ] /dev/hda831873326 1124518+  82 
Linux swap  [1.1gig ] /dev/hda933274807   
11896101   83  Linux [12gig - wow, wish I could
afford this much] ~ [ This is your /home partition ]

Partition table entries are not in disk order
I can breathe now I am out of fdisk!
regards
Rosemary
 

OK Rosemary, I need to study this a little but for now see what I see.
You have a 40gig hard drive:
You have 7 ( note ~ seven ) partitions:
You have only 1 primary partition ~ you ought to have 3 but not
essential: more about this later.
You have only 1 ( one ) logic partition ~ you are allowed up to 16 last
I heard:
You therefore have 1 ( all you are allowed I believe ) extended
partition ~ it is within this partition that you have your logic
partitions:
You have 2 swap partitions ~ no idea why you have two when one is enough
especially when one of them appears huge.
( Don't mind me rambling on here ~ I'm working out loud.)
Generally the rules here are:
No more than 4 primary partitions with only one of them being made an
extended partition in which you can have up to 16 logic ( LBA ) partitions.
You can have as many swap partitions as you like though usually one is
enough.
Partition numbering is:
primary 1 ~ 4 ( includes the extended partition )
With LBA partitions numbering 5 ~ say 16
The only partitions you have correct here are:
/dev/hda1 *  [ Your WinXP partition and the * means it is bootable ]
/dev/hda1 [ One of  your swap partitions and I say this is correct
because it appears to be of the correct size ~ Usually no more than 1.5
times your RAM size if it is under 512MB ]
Now lets take your df printf: [ printf is syntax for echo or in other words
~ what you see returned to the screen when you issue a command seeking
info. ]
FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 5.8G  1.7G  3.9G  30% /[ My rough math for
the above table isn't to far off here afterall.]
/dev/hda9  12G  170M   12G   2% /home [ You must work out what
you really will be using here because this is far to big at present  ~ 
only 170MB of 12000MB used so far.]

SO.
Your WinXP partition does not get mounted when you boot up ~ you may prefer
this but fstab has it entered.
Your hda6 partition doesn't get mounted so we need to discover which
directory this relates to. [ See below ]
Your hda8, in my opinion is just wasted space at present.
Please try this:
Go KConfigure Your DesktopPartitions  and tell me what you see
there. If there is more there than /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda9, ( should at
least be /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8 ),
 then please make a note of what partitions are there AND what there
sizes are, ( Usually in megabytes ~ [ MB ] ), as this will save having
to work out partition sizes using the
 number of blocks reported by the fdisk command. { Went back and did
that anyway but am still curious ]
Another thing to do is to mount that /dev/hda6 partition to find out
what it is. So do as su:
# mkdir /mnt/hda6
# mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6  [ If this gives you errors then stop here
and let me know what those errors are. ]
# cd /mnt/hda6
# ls
Look at any directories listed here ( other than lost  found ) and tell
me what they are please.
Not trying to crowd you so will stop here and await your replies.
   

Okay - first up:
during the install, I selected the partitions that Mandrake preselected - 
which is what I was advised to do, probably at linuxquestions or another 
forum, or possibly on the installation process itself.


Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote:
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Warnings well heeded.  I am almost too scared to do anything in 
Mandrake now - no just kidding.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
  (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 

Please understand my notes to your table here. Is this what you were 
after? Strictly your call here.

  Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  
System   [ Franks approx partition sizes ]
/dev/hda1   *   1236418988798+   7  
HPFS/NTFS   [19gig ]
/dev/hda22423486519623397+   5  
Extended [20gig ]
/dev/hda524233186 6136798+  83  
Linux[6gig] ~ [ This is your root partition ]
/dev/hda648084854  377496   83  
Linux   [350MB ]
/dev/hda748554865   88326   82  Linux 
swap  [82MB ]
/dev/hda831873326 1124518+  82  Linux 
swap  [1.1gig ]
/dev/hda93327480711896101   83  
Linux [12gig - wow, wish I could afford this much] 
~ [ This is your /home partition ]

Partition table entries are not in disk order
I can breathe now I am out of fdisk!
regards
Rosemary
 

OK Rosemary, I need to study this a little but for now see what I see.
You have a 40gig hard drive:
You have 7 ( note ~ seven ) partitions:
You have only 1 primary partition ~ you ought to have 3 but not 
essential: more about this later.

Not realy. You can have up to 4, but if you use an extended partition, 
it uses 1 primary partition slot.

You have only 1 ( one ) logic partition ~ you are allowed up to 16 last 
I heard:

Each partition in the extended partition is a logical partition. This 
system has 5 logical partitions in the extended partition.
You therefore have 1 ( all you are allowed I believe ) extended 
partition ~ it is within this partition that you have your logic 
partitions:

You have 2 swap partitions ~ no idea why you have two when one is enough 
especially when one of them appears huge.

About the only reasion for the second swap partition would be if using 
Software Suspend. You need a swap partition a bit larger then your 
physical memory to hold the currend system state when you suspend to 
disk. But I don't think too many people are using it yet. But 1.1G does 
look a bit large. On the other hand, the 82MB swap partition is realy 
too small to be usefull...
Generally the rules here are:
No more than 4 primary partitions with only one of them being made an 
extended partition in which you can have up to 16 logic partitions.

You can have as many swap partitions as you like though usually one is 
enough.

Partition numbering is:
primary 1 ~ 4 ( includes the extended partition )
With LBA partitions numbering 5 ~ say 16

Logical partitions, not LBA. LBA is a way of accessing a hard drive, not 
a partition type. (Logical Block Allocation if I remember right...)
The only partitions you have correct here are:
/dev/hda1 *  [ Your WinXP partition and the * means it is bootable ]
/dev/hda1 [ One of  your swap partitions and I say this is correct 
because it appears to be of the correct size ~ Usually no more than 1.5 
times your RAM size if it is under 512MB ]

I think you mean dha8 here, and not hda1.
Now lets take your df printf: [ printf is syntax for echo or in other 
words ~ what you see returned to the screen when you issue a command 
seeking info. ]

FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 5.8G  1.7G  3.9G  30% /[ My rough math for 
the above table isn't to far off here afterall.]

/dev/hda9  12G  170M   12G   2% /home [ You must work out 
what you really will be using here because this is far to big at 
present  ~  only 170MB of 12000MB used so far.]

SO.
Your WinXP partition does not get mounted when you boot up ~ you may 
prefer this but fstab has it entered.

Your hda6 partition doesn't get mounted so we need to discover which 
directory this relates to. [ See below ]

This partition was being mounted on /mnt before we disabled it.
Mikkel
--
  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Okay - first up:
during the install, I selected the partitions that Mandrake preselected - 
which is what I was advised to do, probably at linuxquestions or another 
forum, or possibly on the installation process itself.

These were:
hda5 (5.8Gb, /, ext)
hda6 (368Mb, /mnt, ext3)
hda9 (11Gb, /home, ext 3)
If this was incorrect, then so be it - I was simply doing what I thought I had 
been advised to do.  There was also swap there somewhere.

I seriously wonder if all this questioning is worth it - your time, and my 
limited knowledge.  I simply want a system that works.  If I have made a 
mistake, okay, then fix it if can be fixed simply, or reinstall.  It seems 
the fix is not simple, and I believe it is time to reinstall.

I am sorry if this disappoints you ... and I am sorry if I have wasted your 
time.  I acknowledge that I probably stuffed up when I attempted to install 
the mouse, however, there were always problems with stalling, even at the 
first install attempt.  I see on other forums that Mandrake is reputed to 
have problems with USB devices.  That may be disputed here - I don't know.

I do know that I need to have a system that works, and if i don't fully 
understand why it didn't, then I can live with that.  I hope you can see my 
point.  I read recently - on the local LUG mailing list I think - that some 
prefer to wrestle with linux, than actually use their system  I *don't* fall 
into that category.

I really am deeply appreciative of your efforts to help, and of other listers 
- but am beginning to wonder if it is going anywhere.

Regards
Rosemary
Rosemary,
 While I would love to take this through to the end, in this case, you 
are probably right about a re-install being the best fix. If I were 
sitting in front of your box, I could probably get everything sorted out 
in less time then it would take to install. But doing it over the list, 
it will probably take at least a few days. I would enjoy the chalange, 
but it is probably not in your best interest. If you had more Linux 
experence, and wanted to learn system repair, that would be different.

 Now, when you re-install, you will want to save your /home partition, 
(hda9) and probably your extra data partition (hda6).

One thing I would do different - you will want hda6 to mount on /data or 
/mnt/data. You do NOT want it on /mnt. If you want, you can just tell 
the installer to leave it alone, and we can help you create a mount 
point for it later.

Mikkel
--
  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-28 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 04:49, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
 SnapafunFrank wrote:
  Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
  Warnings well heeded.  I am almost too scared to do anything in
  Mandrake now - no just kidding.
 
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda
 
  The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
  There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
  and could in certain setups cause problems with:
  1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
  2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
 
  Command (m for help): p
 
  Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
  Please understand my notes to your table here. Is this what you were
  after? Strictly your call here.
 
Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id
  System   [ Franks approx partition sizes ]
  /dev/hda1   *   1236418988798+   7
  HPFS/NTFS   [19gig ]
  /dev/hda22423486519623397+   5
  Extended [20gig ]
  /dev/hda524233186 6136798+  83
  Linux[6gig] ~ [ This is your root partition ]
  /dev/hda648084854  377496   83
  Linux   [350MB ]
  /dev/hda748554865   88326   82  Linux
  swap  [82MB ]
  /dev/hda831873326 1124518+  82  Linux
  swap  [1.1gig ]
  /dev/hda93327480711896101   83
  Linux [12gig - wow, wish I could afford this much]
  ~ [ This is your /home partition ]
 
  Partition table entries are not in disk order
 
  I can breathe now I am out of fdisk!
 
  regards
  Rosemary
 
  OK Rosemary, I need to study this a little but for now see what I see.
 
  You have a 40gig hard drive:
 
  You have 7 ( note ~ seven ) partitions:
 
  You have only 1 primary partition ~ you ought to have 3 but not
  essential: more about this later.

 Not realy. You can have up to 4, but if you use an extended partition,
 it uses 1 primary partition slot.

  You have only 1 ( one ) logic partition ~ you are allowed up to 16 last
  I heard:

 Each partition in the extended partition is a logical partition. This
 system has 5 logical partitions in the extended partition.

  You therefore have 1 ( all you are allowed I believe ) extended
  partition ~ it is within this partition that you have your logic
  partitions:
 
  You have 2 swap partitions ~ no idea why you have two when one is enough
  especially when one of them appears huge.

 About the only reasion for the second swap partition would be if using
 Software Suspend. You need a swap partition a bit larger then your
 physical memory to hold the currend system state when you suspend to
 disk. But I don't think too many people are using it yet. But 1.1G does
 look a bit large. On the other hand, the 82MB swap partition is realy
 too small to be usefull...

I wonder if this happened at the attempt to get the mouse going ...  

  Generally the rules here are:
 
  No more than 4 primary partitions with only one of them being made an
  extended partition in which you can have up to 16 logic partitions.
 
  You can have as many swap partitions as you like though usually one is
  enough.
 
  Partition numbering is:
  primary 1 ~ 4 ( includes the extended partition )
  With LBA partitions numbering 5 ~ say 16

 Logical partitions, not LBA. LBA is a way of accessing a hard drive, not
 a partition type. (Logical Block Allocation if I remember right...)

  The only partitions you have correct here are:
 
  /dev/hda1 *  [ Your WinXP partition and the * means it is bootable ]
  /dev/hda1 [ One of  your swap partitions and I say this is correct
  because it appears to be of the correct size ~ Usually no more than 1.5
  times your RAM size if it is under 512MB ]

 I think you mean dha8 here, and not hda1.

  Now lets take your df printf: [ printf is syntax for echo or in other
  words ~ what you see returned to the screen when you issue a command
  seeking info. ]
 
  FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 
  /dev/hda5 5.8G  1.7G  3.9G  30% /[ My rough math for
  the above table isn't to far off here afterall.]
 
  /dev/hda9  12G  170M   12G   2% /home [ You must work out
  what you really will be using here because this is far to big at
  present  ~  only 170MB of 12000MB used so far.]
 
  SO.
  Your WinXP partition does not get mounted when you boot up ~ you may
  prefer this but fstab has it entered.
 
  Your hda6 partition doesn't get mounted so we need to discover which
  directory this relates to. [ See below ]

 This partition was being mounted on /mnt before we disabled it.

 Mikkel


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[newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Warnings well heeded.  I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake now - 
no just kidding.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *   1236418988798+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda22423486519623397+   5  Extended
/dev/hda524233186 6136798+  83  Linux
/dev/hda648084854  377496   83  Linux
/dev/hda748554865   88326   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda831873326 1124518+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda93327480711896101   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

I can breathe now I am out of fdisk!

regards
Rosemary



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Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Warnings well heeded.  I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake now - 
no just kidding.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
  (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 

Please understand my notes to your table here. Is this what you were 
after? Strictly your call here.

  Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System   
[ Franks approx partition sizes ]
/dev/hda1   *   1236418988798+   7  HPFS/NTFS   
[19gig ]
/dev/hda22423486519623397+   5  Extended 
[20gig ]
/dev/hda524233186 6136798+  83  Linux   
 [6gig] ~ [ This is your root partition ]
/dev/hda648084854  377496   83  Linux   
[350MB ]
/dev/hda748554865   88326   82  Linux swap  
[82MB ]
/dev/hda831873326 1124518+  82  Linux swap  
[1.1gig ]
/dev/hda93327480711896101   83  Linux   
  [12gig - wow, wish I could afford this much] ~ [ This is your /home partition 
]
Partition table entries are not in disk order
I can breathe now I am out of fdisk!
regards
Rosemary
 

OK Rosemary, I need to study this a little but for now see what I see.
You have a 40gig hard drive:
You have 7 ( note ~ seven ) partitions:
You have only 1 primary partition ~ you ought to have 3 but not 
essential: more about this later.

You have only 1 ( one ) logic partition ~ you are allowed up to 16 last 
I heard:

You therefore have 1 ( all you are allowed I believe ) extended 
partition ~ it is within this partition that you have your logic partitions:

You have 2 swap partitions ~ no idea why you have two when one is enough 
especially when one of them appears huge.

( Don't mind me rambling on here ~ I'm working out loud.)
Generally the rules here are:
No more than 4 primary partitions with only one of them being made an 
extended partition in which you can have up to 16 logic ( LBA ) partitions.

You can have as many swap partitions as you like though usually one is 
enough.

Partition numbering is:
primary 1 ~ 4 ( includes the extended partition )
With LBA partitions numbering 5 ~ say 16
The only partitions you have correct here are:
/dev/hda1 *  [ Your WinXP partition and the * means it is bootable ]
/dev/hda1 [ One of  your swap partitions and I say this is correct because 
it appears to be of the correct size ~ Usually no more than 1.5 times your RAM 
size if it is under 512MB ]
Now lets take your df printf: [ printf is syntax for echo or in other words ~ 
what you see returned to the screen when you issue a command seeking info. ]
FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 5.8G  1.7G  3.9G  30% /[ My rough math for the 
above table isn't to far off here afterall.]
/dev/hda9  12G  170M   12G   2% /home [ You must work out what you 
really will be using here because this is far to big at present  ~  only 170MB 
of 12000MB used so far.]
SO. 

Your WinXP partition does not get mounted when you boot up ~ you may prefer 
this but fstab has it entered.
Your hda6 partition doesn't get mounted so we need to discover which directory 
this relates to. [ See below ]
Your hda8, in my opinion is just wasted space at present.
Please try this:
Go KConfigure Your DesktopPartitions  and tell me what you see 
there. If there is more there than /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda9, ( should at 
least be /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8 ),
 then please make a note of what partitions are there AND what there 
sizes are, ( Usually in megabytes ~ [ MB ] ), as this will save having 
to work out partition sizes using the
 number of blocks reported by the fdisk command. { Went back and did 
that anyway but am still curious ]

Another thing to do is to mount that /dev/hda6 partition to find out 
what it is. So do as su:

# mkdir /mnt/hda6
# mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6  [ If this gives you errors then stop here 
and let me know what those errors are. ]
# cd /mnt/hda6
# ls   
Look at any directories listed here ( other than lost  found ) and tell 
me what they are please.

Not trying to crowd you so will stop here and await your replies.
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Regards
SnapafunFrank
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