Hard drive after dual boot

**Ant** · 07-15-2008

Help please
I installed xp then dual booted hardy heron with a lot of help from your good self's here, and for once everything is ok, however today I defragmented the disc in xp and what shows up is c drive capacity 32.30gb and free space 19.78gb, there is no reference to anything else. In Ubuntu what shows is (34.7gb media) 12.5gb used 19.8gb free, and again no reference to anything else, which leaves me thinking that I got it wrong, I had I thought that I was creating 2 partititions (c)and (f) at about 120 gb each of the 250gb hard drive is there anything can be done in this situation
thanks in anticipation

**Geeth** · 07-15-2008

Windows will not show any linux partitions.

Can you post the outout of

df -h
and
fdisk -l (lowercase L)

**Ant** · 07-15-2008

Hello there I'm new to all this I hope this is right
:

Code:

~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5             197G  5.0G  182G   3% /
varrun                474M  100K  474M   1% /var/run
varlock               474M     0  474M   0% /var/lock
udev                  474M   48K  474M   1% /dev
devshm                474M   12K  474M   1% /dev/shm
lrm                   474M   39M  435M   9% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon      197G  5.0G  182G   3% /home/tony/.gvfs
:~$ fdisk -l
-desktop:~$

thanks

**devils casper** · 07-15-2008

/dev/sda5 197G 5.0G 182G 3% /

Size of /dev/sda5 is 197GB.
Execute this

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

Post output here.

**Ant** · 07-16-2008

Hello and thank you this is the result

Code:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x47954794
 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        4216    33864988+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            4217       30401   210331012+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            4217       30047   207487476   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           30048       30401     2843473+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

**devils casper** · 07-17-2008

Partition Structure is correct. You have allocated a lot of free space to / partition of Linux ( /dev/sda5 ). You can resize that partition through PartedMagic LiveCD and create new partition or resize /dev/sda1 easily.

**Ant** · 07-17-2008

Thank you for your patience I am just thankful that I had not done something wrong, I will now have to learn a bit more before attempting any alterations to partitions,at this stage I would not know the advantages of doing it
thank you very much

**devils casper** · 07-17-2008

I am glad to help you Ant !
There is no need to resize partition(s) unless you are running out of space in Windows OS.
Its recommended to create a separate partition for Data sharing though. NTFS is supported by Linux and you can create a new partition to share data.

**Ant** · 07-18-2008

Thanks for that advice is there a tutorial for that (data sharing) it is not something I thought possible
thans

**devils casper** · 07-18-2008

You wont have to do anything special for data sharing.
Windows OS detects NTFS partition and assign drive letter to it automatically. As Linux support NTFS read/write access through ntfs-3g package, one can add an entry of NTFS partition /etc/fstab file to automount it.

In my test machine, /dev/sda6 is a NTFS Partition and Windows XP has assigned E: drive letter to it. I created a mount_point ( folder ) /media/data in Linux and edited /etc/fstab file to automount it.

Code:

/dev/sda6  /media/data  ntfs-3g   defaults,umask=0 0 0

I have read/write access to NTFS partitions in both OSes.

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