I recently installed Ubuntu on my PC, and when I partitioned an 8 GB hd at 95%, I only have 2.3 GB total.?

Question

Is this normal? What do I do? Should I just reinstall (which I can do - my data is backed up) and use the whole 8GB hd instead of partitioning? It is old (~5 years guessing) and connected via IDE (internal). I'm running Ubuntu 6.10 Desktop version.

Answer 1

There is no reason that your system can't be set up to do what you want it to. A clean reinstall is unnecessary, unless you have an allergy to learning how to do things.

If you know the IDs of the hard drive (it is most likely /dev/hda)

you can do:


'fdisk /dev/hda'

At the prompt type 'p'

This will show you yr partition table, and you can see where everything is.

You will benefit from the following manual pages:

fdisk
mount
(bring them up by giving the command line command : 'man fdisk' or 'man mount')

cheers

Answer 2

I would just do a clean install of UBUNTU. Here are some links which may be of some use to you. When prompted, just tell it to take over the whole hard drive.