Please Help

[brandon181062]

Hey guys i got linux last night about midnight everything went well. I have two questions though i have three partitions that are clearly linux and i deleted my windows without using its space could you tell me where to put my 64 gigs. and how. and also my wireless isn't working not huge but i would like to know how to fix it . Thanx again sorry if im already being annoying

[Jonathan183]

What do you want to do with the 64GB of hard drive space you have available?
What do you use your system for?

Two options I would consider are increasing home partition and creating a separate data partition.

If you open a terminal and type the following ...

su
fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab
df -h

the l is a small L.
We can then see what partitions you have, and what capacity you have used/have available on each partition.

[techieMoe]

and also my wireless isn't working not huge but i would like to know how to fix it .

Details are important. What kind of computer do you have? Do you know what wireless card it uses? The steps for configuration are different depending on the brand and model.

[brandon181062]

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hope this comes up and is helpful thanks in advance

[bryansmith]

No picture .

What kind of wireless card do you have?

Bryan

[brandon181062]

britter@linux-d3xg:~> su
Password:
linux-d3xg:/home/britter # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xea817eaf

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 8327 9729 11269597+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 8327 8588 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 8589 9241 5245191 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 9242 9729 3919828+ 83 Linux
linux-d3xg:/home/britter # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST980811AS_5LY4Y8ZN-part6 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST980811AS_5LY4Y8ZN-part7 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST980811AS_5LY4Y8ZN-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
linux-d3xg:/home/britter # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 5.0G 3.1G 1.6G 67% /
udev 1003M 76K 1003M 1% /dev
/dev/sda7 3.7G 92M 3.5G 3% /home
linux-d3xg:/home/britter #
OK maybe now i can help in my self destruction

[Jonathan183]

I think you would be best using the space you have available to increase the size of your root and home partitions. This can be done in a number of ways ... which one suits you best will depend on you, and how long you have been using your system. I would allow 25GB for root, use 2 x RAM for swap (upto maximum swap size of 1GB), and use the rest for a home partition. The two easy ways of achieving this are:-
1. re-install linux setting up partitions as you want
2. use something like the PartedMagic CD to resize existing partitions.