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Right, where to begin.. After getting Linux up and running I discovered I only had 12GB or so of disk space available of what I knew was a 200GB disc, ...
  1. 10-10-2010 #1
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    Question Getting very confused.. newbie question..

    Right, where to begin..

    After getting Linux up and running I discovered I only had 12GB or so of disk space available of what I knew was a 200GB disc, so this got me looking around, trying to find where all the space had gone... anyway, I found a fold called 'host' which apparently has 160GB available! so how can a disk with more than 160GB available exist within one where there's only twelve...? heh.. could somebody explain all this 'cause it's messing with my head! xD

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    Hi and Welcome !

    Execute this in Terminal :
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    df -h
sudo fdisk -l
    Post output here.

    * It's small L in fdisk -l.
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    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/loop0 17G 2.7G 13G 18% /
    none 1003M 344K 1002M 1% /dev
    none 1007M 864K 1006M 1% /dev/shm
    none 1007M 196K 1007M 1% /var/run
    none 1007M 0 1007M 0% /var/lock
    none 1007M 0 1007M 0% /lib/init/rw
    /dev/sda1 187G 51G 137G 27% /host
    /dev/sdb2 298G 224G 75G 76% /media/3682974B82970F0D

    and...

    Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
    240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 25841 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0xe5ee552b

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sda1 1 25841 195357928+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

    Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x0aa86ccf

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sdb1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
    Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
    /dev/sdb2 13 38914 312466432 7 HPFS/NTFS


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    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda1 187G 51G 137G 27% /host
    /dev/sda1 is a partition mounted at /host folder. You can access data inside /host.
    Second Hard disk has been mounted /media/3682974B82970F0D folder. You can change folder name easily.
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  5. 10-10-2010 #5
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    so just put folders inside the host folder then?
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