Where is My 160 GB hard disk...?

[jaydoc]

Hi,

First of all lemme inform all linux gurus who maybe trying to help me, that i'm a member newly inducted into the holy order of Linux. And that i am just now learning the ropes of Linux. i don't know why i made the change, i guess i was bored of windows, and i guess too i wasn't very much interested in giving MS all my precious money.

I had a number of problems finding out a distro that would install on my spanking new C2D system, based on Intel DG965 motherboard. But then i finally had luck with openSUSE 10.2. The install went with no problems whatsoever. Except that, My 160 GB HDD was recognized as 149 GB.

But now i find that i can't access my disk drives.....! i'm a total newbie to linux itself, i have all along been a windows user. So i don't even know how to word this issue in linuxspeak...!

All i can say is, when i click on my computer, my disk info says, i've got a 73M media of 68.33 MB and then a floppy drive.

Now where is that 160 GB HDD of mine...? How can i access it.
I can't see any icon named storage media which i believe is the linux equivalent of a disk drive...?

Please help me.

[birre]

>Except that, My 160 GB HDD was recognized as 149 GB.

Since the beginning of the hard drives, they count disk space in
megabytes as 1000000 bytes , and Gigabytes as 1000 megabytes.

Once you make a filesystem, the numbers goes from number of
bytes to storage units (blocks) , where 1 kilo is 1024 bytes
~> echo '149*1024*1024*1024' | bc
159987531776

There you have your 160 GB unformatted data

Long time back we tried to use the standard xxx megabytes for
unformatted storage, and xxx Megabytes for formatted, but it didn't work
since the disk vendors prefered to use capitals to make it look better.
I still use this, eg. 160 gB = 149 GB , and B=bytes , b=bits .
1kB= 1000 , 1KB=1024.

Even suse has the silly "My Computer" thing on the Desktop , click on that
and you will see all storage connected to your machine.
This is also the place you do safe unmount of USB storage before unplugging them.

/bb