Install on 40gig shows 12.3 gig.

[woodsmoke]

Hi
I installed Quirky Quiddich on a 40 gig Barracuda, kinda shows how long I've been putzing with assembling computers! doesn't it! lol

Anywhoo, I very specifically chose ALL of the time for the OS to do a guided install and take over the whole drive.

I did so in this case, but, what is displayed in Dolphin is a 12.3 GiB drive.

Removable devices shows a 12.3 GiB drive

Partition manager shows:

/dev/sda (13.27 GiB)
/dev/sdb (3.61 GiB)

Those do not relate to a 40 gig drive in any way that I can determine.

Is it, perchance, that the drive has some bad sectors and that the OS determined which were good and installed thereupon? In that part of the install screen it said that it was going to install to a 40 gig partition.

Inquiring minds want to know! lol

woodnotcomplainingjustcommentingsmoke

[Snowhog]

Sounds like the drive already had a partition set up on it. Did you use GParted to partition the drive before you installed Quirky Quiddich?

[woodsmoke]

No, I always opt for what a new user would do and so did not.

But, given that, I have never had to use gparted or anything else to let the OS take over "the whole drive".

So, don't know.

woodsmoke

[Snowhog]

What does GParted report when you look at that HDD?

[woodsmoke]

well, lol, I was going to be lazy and just not do the gparted thing, but I'll dig out the cd and give it a look see! lol

woodsmoke

[woodsmoke]

Ok Gparted shows:

device information: /dev/hdc 13.27 GiB disk label dos

of course it listed cylinders/heads/sectors etc. but since the info is not printed on the drives label, no way to compare to what should be there.

unallocated 1.0 mib
/dev/hdc1 ext3 12.27 GiB
/dev/hdc2 extended 1022.00 MiB
/dev/hdc5 Linux swap 1022.00 MiB

So, don't know! but curious! lol

woodsmoke

[Snowhog]

Most likely then, it isn't a 40GB HDD. Does it still have its OEM label? Does it specify that it's a 40GB HDD?

[woodsmoke]

yes it has the original oem sticker and it says 40gig.

So don't know, it may be that I was tired or something and mis clicked.

so, we could mark the thread solved, or delete it.

woodsmoke

[Snowhog]

Interesting. Label says it's 40GB, but GParted shows it as the smaller 13.27GB. How old is the HDD?

[woodsmoke]

2003 lol

woodsmoke

[Snowhog]

Nine years. Well, it is 'possible' that a significant amount of the HDD surface (at the end) went bad. If it had gone bad at the beginning of the HDD, it would be toast.

[woodsmoke]

yep, i quite agree! that is what I get for staying old school and minimalist! lol

woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

I have seen instances drives that appear smaller than they really are. For example, if you dd a 1 GiB image onto a 4 GiB USB drive, the drive appears as only 1 GiB to some partition managers. (This process is common in Nook rooting land.)

Woody -- if you delete the partition table using fdisk, are you then able to see the full 40 GiB?

[woodsmoke]

Hi SR
I didn't try that so I'll give it a whirl.

woodsmoke

[capt-zero]

Woodsmoke, a similar occurance on my 40 gig after install. I used the default install parameters installing from a USB stick. I believe the first option is resize disk and install. The graphic below showed a disk, after install, using about 90% of the disk for the program and the rest as a swap. However, now I notice that it did what appears to be two separate installs. By that I mean, if I look at the disk in gparted, it shows two different partitions; one of 17.5 gigs and another 18.5 gigs, with the rest as a swap. Looking at it in dolphin, it shows as another linux distro on the larger partition. This doesn't show up in my grub file though. I've done some downloading since the install, so I'm definately running on the smaller partition. Would it cause problems if I deleted the larger and then resized the smaller? Just for those who might be concerned about bad sectors on an old HDD, the disk checks out as hunky dory.