Scanning file system gives me 294 GB capacity of hard disk but my hard disk has only 160 GB. I am with Ubuntu 9.04 installed with Wubi upgrading from 8.10.

I would say that you do not have conflicting information, you are simply interpreting it incorrectly.

Let me explain.

Your fdisk output shows a TOTAL of 19457 cylinders

This cannot be disputed, and for all purposes according to the size of the disk and space created seems correct. I will not dispute this.

However you see two partitions that have the SAME allocation on the disk. sda2 starts at 1045 and ends at 19457 SO DOES sda5.

This is great ... for windows. This is not hence you are confused.

Since you installed via wubi, you have a VIRTUAL disk built 'probably' on this disk. So looking at the PHYSICAL disk does not tell you anything relevent to ubuntu.

For information about Wubi and virtual disks, check out the documentation here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide

HTH,

Thank you foor answering me and forgive my ignorance, I am in Linux world recently.

At  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/370487   I filled out a bug, a contradiction. It is related to the same problem. I uploaded and a screenshot of Disk usage Analyzer. I did that because the guys from #ubuntu bugs from IRC told me to do that. Could you have a look please? Emil

--- On Fri, 5/1/09, Jeruvy <email address hidden> wrote:
From: Jeruvy <email address hidden>
Subject:
Re: [Question #69372]: Scanning file system gives me 294 GB capacity of
hard disk but my hard disk has only 160 GB. I am with Ubuntu 9.04
installed with Wubi upgrading from 8.10.
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Friday, May 1, 2009, 9:07 PM

Your question #69372 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/69372

    Status: Open => Answered

Jeruvy proposed the following answer:
I would say that you do not have conflicting information, you are simply
interpreting it incorrectly.

Let me explain.

Your fdisk output shows a TOTAL of 19457 cylinders

This cannot be disputed, and for all purposes according to the size of
the disk and space created seems correct. I will not dispute this.

However you see two partitions that have the SAME allocation on the
disk. sda2 starts at 1045 and ends at 19457 SO DOES sda5.

This is great ... for windows. This is not hence you are confused.

Since you installed via wubi, you have a VIRTUAL disk built 'probably'
on this disk. So looking at the PHYSICAL disk does not tell you anything
relevent to ubuntu.

For information about Wubi and virtual disks, check out the
documentation here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide

HTH,

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--- On Fri, 5/1/09, Jeruvy <email address hidden> wrote:
From: Jeruvy <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #69372]: Scanning file system gives me 294 GB capacity of hard disk but my hard disk has only 160 GB. I am with Ubuntu 9.04 installed with Wubi upgrading from 8.10.
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Friday, May 1, 2009, 9:07 PM

Your question #69372 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/69372

    Status: Open => Answered

Jeruvy proposed the following answer:
I would say that you do not have conflicting information, you are simply
interpreting it incorrectly.

Let me explain.

Your fdisk output shows a TOTAL of 19457 cylinders

This cannot be disputed, and for all purposes according to the size of
the disk and space created seems correct. I will not dispute this.

However you see two partitions that have the SAME allocation on the
disk. sda2 starts at 1045 and ends at 19457 SO DOES sda5.

This is great ... for windows. This is not hence you are confused.

Since you installed via wubi, you have a VIRTUAL disk built 'probably'
on this disk. So looking at the PHYSICAL disk does not tell you anything
relevent to ubuntu.

For information about Wubi and virtual disks, check out the
documentation here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide

HTH,

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