System monitor info

[bamalynn]

I know this will seem like a really "novice" question, but I am just starting to familiarize myself with Ubuntu and the whole Linux idea vs Windows. So far, I'm liking what I'm discovering!

Anyhow, after purchasing a new computer with Ubuntu Heron installed, I decided to see how much space on my hard drive is left, of what I originally ordered.

I went into the System Monitor window to see, and I must say I'm a little confused. I know what the info means, but it seems like it is saying that I have two CPUs? How can that be? On the "System" tab it reads:

Ubuntu
Release 8.04 (hardy)
Kernel Linux 2.6.24-19-lpia
GNOME 2.22.3

Hardware
Memory: 1000.9 MiB
Processor 0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz
Processor 1: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz

System Status
Available disk space: 3.9 GiB

The confusing part also is that I ordered this HP mini with an 8GB hard drive, not the standard 4GB. Is this partitioned to only show one HD at a time?

On the tab "File Systems" it reads:

Device Directory Type Total Free Available Used
/dev/sda2 / ext3 6.9 4.2 GiB 3.9 GiB 2.7 GiB
Gvfs-fuse-daemon /home.. fuse.. 6.9 4.2 Gib 3.9 Gib 2.7 Gib

Some overlapping, split HD, or something else? Please advise if I got what I ordered?

[D-cat]

On a dual core processor, each core shows as its own processor. This is normal.

Your hard drive looks to be partitioned probably with separate boot and swap partitions totaling 1 GB, leaving 7 GB for your data and OS programs, minus about 100MB for file system overhead (super blocks/file/inode tables). Anyway, depending on what's installed, 2.7GB's worth of programs on a Linux install is actually pretty typical.

If you want to verify that you have an 8GB drive (I'm sure you do) and how it's partitioned, open a terminal window and type

sudo fdisk -l

that's FDISK -L in lower case. It'll show you you the partition types of all drives installed.

I'm a little surprised they formatted as ext3... doesn't the HP-mini come with a solid state drive? I wonder if they over-rode the default write cycle so as to prevent early burnout of the drive (the default is every 5 seconds, better for SSD's is closer to 60 seconds, or disable the journal/convert to ext2).

Anyway, this so far looks to be a typical Ubuntu Linux install.