missing hard drive space

[Eberhard Roloff]

Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu) wrote:
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> Eberhard Roloff schreef:
>> MG wrote:
>>> I am meant to have a thousand gigs
>>> Don't know if I partitioned wrongly at the beginning as confused me
>>> Is there a way to alter this and to regain my space or at least see it 
>>> again?????????
>>>
>> aha....
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>> I would open a commandline and then type
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>> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
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>> after you send this within your reply, we will see what your system 
>> thinks of your disk and where its space might be gone.
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> I'm sorry to drop in, but I think that this will be better:
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> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sd*
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> That's sd*, all disks, not just sda, the first disk.
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> Amedee
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Amedee,

you are correct, of cours. Somehow I was under the (false) assumption 
that the OP had only one disk with 1 tB, which he did not fully use.

I was wrong. Thanks for pointing out the correct syntax.

Eberhard