Ubuntu 8.10 installation question

[Monatage]

Hello, I am very new to linux(installed 15 minutes ago Ubuntu 8.10 dual booting Windows XP). My question is, during installation there was an option to bring existing documents and settings. I thought this would just bring over my desktop background and cookies or something so I selected it. But now I notice I have all my music and documents available and almost no extra space(9.8 mb). I made the partition fairly small because I only installed ubuntu for a programming project and didn't intend to need much space, I didn't think I made the partition big enough for these files so my question is are these files copied over to the new partition or am I accessing them from the old partition. If they are on the new partition I will just delete them and solve the problem, but I don't want to delete these files permenantly from when I go back to Windows.

[yancek]

It's impossible to accurately answer your questions with the information you gave. You say you now have all your music and documents available...from what, where were they before? Is this from your xp installation? Can you boot into both Ubuntu and xp? How many hard drives do you have? How many partitions on each drive (if more than one)? Are Ubuntu and xp the only operating systems you have? Are you booting using the Grub bootloader? If so and you can boot Ubuntu, run the command "sudo fdisk -l" (without quotes, lower case letter L) and post the output of the file /boot/grub/menu.lst.

Do you have the xp auto-mounted in Ubuntu?