I..."think"...I filled up my drive.

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But I don't know...

I Nstalled onto 2x 1G hard drives and it really surprised me that it took that much space.

My drives are cfg:

hda (1G) = /

hdb swap = 208M
hdb /home = the rest of the drive.

I don't know why but this is the way Mandrake's "auto" set it up when I partitioned.

I..."THINK"...the install took up most of this all and everything seemed to work fine.

I played and cfg'd the desktop...changed my colors, theme, etc...nothing drastic. And, I re-booted several times just to fascinate myself with the process. (It's kewl) http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Then!...I got courageous and went to install StarOffice. 8(

I ..."think"...I ran out of space and the install did not complete.

The next time I booted...it wouldn't.

It gets to: "Starting linuxconfig" then halts.

I also see earler where it says something about "not cleanly unmounted, check forced"...

On top of all this I can't find any command like the DOS "dir" command to check my drives and see how much space is/isn't left on them.

I know that the way DOS/Linux "do" files is different...but how in the heK do you find out how much space you have left?

Also, am I correct in my assumption that rather than "drives"...Linux sorta sees it all as just one big clump broken up into "partitions"?...thus the ease of adding drives in the SCSI fashion?

Believe it or not, I am enjoying learning all this. I just got upset because I couldn't get Linux to install.


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[ph34r]

Try

df -h

That should tell you how much space you have left on all mounted drives.

[jatfiLL]

IF you can get to a command prompt (use your bootdisk, hopefully you made one), type in the following:

df -k

I just installed mandrake on a 4G partition, and it takes up about 85% of the /usr partition without StarOffice, so I imagine you're probably right about the disk space

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Originally posted by ph34r:
Try

df -h

That should tell you how much space you have left on all mounted drives.

Thx!...yes, my / is full.

I think I filled everything up when I tried to install StarOffice, now it won't boot. It just keeps cycling and trying to...
"Now my learning starts"...do I try to fix this or just re-install?

If I try to fix it, where do I start?



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[Eclipse]

/usr instead of /home


hda (1G) = /

hdb swap = 208M
hdb /usr = the rest of the drive.

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Originally posted by Eclipse:
/usr instead of /home


hda (1G) = /

hdb swap = 208M
hdb /usr = the rest of the drive.

OK, what exactly is the difference?

I'm puzzled as to WHY Mandrake is taking so much.

Heck!...even Win98 doesn't take but about 200M or less.

And, pardon me for sounding prejudiced but it runs a whole lot faster/smoother on the P120 that the KDE that I saw.

Whazzup?




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[larryliberty]

You probably installed a bunch of stuff that you don't really need. Try the 'workstation' option. If you must run Apache, compile programs, run Star Office, etc. you'll probably need more storage. Not that much, though -- my 10GB hard drive is only half full, and I even have Oracle on it.

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Constitutional Republic: Same as above, but lamb's not on the menu (unless the wolves are really hungry).

[Derango]

The thing with linux is, when you install the OS, you usualy don't just get the OS (although you can do a bare minimum install if you want) You also get a working computing envornment with many of the applications you need to do your daily work (or whatever you do during the day http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif )

What this amounts to is a base install that can range anyhere from around 100-200MB to over 1GB. You probably have a ton of junk on there that you'll never use. Since you have a 1GB hard drive, I assume you tried (intentionaly or unintentionaly) to install everything. Go back through the installer and maybe narow down the installed packages a bit.

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ALL:

Thanks for the info and advice. I'm getting on cable modem Wednesday so I'll probably DL some ISO's and try a few different distros..(Gee!...does this sound familiar?).

Now I need to get me one-o-dem big fat books. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

No, honestly...this should be fun, I just wonder now how much an OC-3 connect is gonna cost me. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif



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