Curious phenomena

[Steve Flynn]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Pat <pat.mysterywriter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     When I look in System Monitor it reports I have something like 43.2 GB
>>     of disk space which is so far off I'm staggered. In actual fact I
>>     might
>>     have 4 GB on my laptop. Why would it show such a discrepancy?
> df -H
> Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda7               53G   3.8G    47G   8% /
> /dev/sdb1              4.0G   3.7G   333M  92% /media/KINGSTON

Looks to me like you have  a 53 gig partition, 47gig available for
use. You also have a 4 gig thumbdrive, I would guess...

What makes you think you only have 4 gig of disk on your laptop?

-- 
Steve
When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

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