Curious phenomena

[Pat]

Knapp wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> I was thinking the same thing. I have a lap top that came with a USB
> stick wifi. I could not get it to work right but then found that my
> computer was getting the router WITHOUT the USB stick plugged in!
> Turns out that a few of my laptops came with factory installed wiki
> that the former window user did not know about. Are you sure you have
> the hardware you think you have?
>
>   
For some reason I thought that's what it came with. I was given the 
laptop as a gift last year. I know I have the 4 gb USB. But if I really 
have a 53 gb partition then bonus. Here I was worried about disk space!

Pat Brown

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