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Hard drive space, memory card space reading issue.

Asked by Kious87

I have a compaq evo n620c, it has a 40GB hard-drive (I know it's small but it's my test computer), and My Computer says it has 72.4 GB of hard drive space. Is This possible (I really don't think so), I haven't done a memory upgrade and it cut's my 2 GB memory card's amount of space down to 612.3 Mb? WHAT IS GOING ON???

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Kious87 (jkirby87) said : 		#1

I really need Some help please

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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#2

What version of Ubuntu are you running?
Have you got all the latest updates?

In a terminal window (Applications menu, Accessories)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#3

Post the outputs of:-
sudo fdisk -l
and
free -m

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Kious87 (jkirby87) said : 		#4

I am running latest version of ubuntu with all the updates I can find. and when I enter the "sudo fdisk -l" I get this:

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x98429842

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4676 37559938+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4677 4864 1510110 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4677 4864 1510078+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 2032 MB, 2032664576 bytes
64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 984 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 984 1983619+ 6 FAT16

and when I put the "free -m" in I get this.

                   total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 503 497 6 0 0 238
-/+ buffers/cache: 258 244
Swap: 1474 37 1437

If this stuff means what I think it does I might have a small codec issue. I hope I'm wrong I don't like writting code unless I know what I'm doing.

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#5

Well, everything looks fine:-
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB >> internal drive
and
Disk /dev/sdb: 2032 MB >> memory card

Post the output of:-
df

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Kious87 (jkirby87) said : 		#6

here you go

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 36969672 14470456 20621220 42% /
varrun 257724 232 257492 1% /var/run
varlock 257724 4 257720 1% /var/lock
udev 257724 60 257664 1% /dev
devshm 257724 560 257164 1% /dev/shm
lrm 257724 38176 219548 15% /lib/modules/2.6.24-18-generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon 36969672 14470456 20621220 42% /home/josh/.gvfs
/dev/sdb1 1983360 639296 1344064 33% /media/disk

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#7

Even that looks ok, it seems that there may be a bug in System Monitor but other than that everything else is fine.

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