MISSING HARD DRIVE SPACE

[Thorny]

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:18:45 +0100, MG posted:

> I seem to have lost 500 gigs of space I think 300 is from a hard drive
> that needs to be formatted how much is Ubuntu with all the sound extras
> (synths etc) likely to take up?????
> 
> 
>> why do I get no accurate freespace readings? why does 1 drive seem to
>> have shrunk to 3 Gig????? Thx
>>[...]

In case you are new to asking for help on a list, I will explain a bit
about the comments that poster marc made about your post.

Your posting style is such that many of the most helpful posters here will
just ignore your question and that will be unproductive in getting you
useful help efficiently.

All caps is though of as shouting here in cyberspace and it has an effect
similar to walking into a room and shouting for people to help you, in
short, it is annoying to many people reading the posts. 

There is a fairly good writeup of posting style at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style

There is an explanation of mailing list etiquette on Ubuntu mailing lists
at:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette

There is this brief description of how to ask for help effectively.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToGetHelp#How%20to%20ask%20for%20help

If you have more time, also read the link provided there, it goes into
much more detail about how to ask questions that get good answers:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

It's very hard to give any kind of reasonable answer to the "questions"
you've asked here other than to say a fresh install of Ubuntu is not going
to use anywhere near the kind of "lost" space you're trying to track down.

Tell us more about your system, is this the drive you've installed Ubuntu
on? If so does it boot up correctly? Did you do any partitioning? What
commands are you using to try and "find" the space. Help us to help you.