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[Thomas]

Hello,

Your suggestion is interesting.  I assume that its possible to make the
sizes larger.  Before I go further I am going to do some learning.

Thomas

On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 14:04 +0200, Knapp wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Karl F. Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Thomas wrote:
> >> Forgot again!
> >>
> >> Forgot to include a question.
> >>
> >> How can I set up the rest of a hard disk for Ubuntu?
> >>
> >> I am only using 50 GB of my 500 GB drive.  Could not figure
> >> out what to do.
> >>
> >> I am planning to reinstall the 2nd hard disk and assume that
> >> the same solution would work for both.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Thomas
> >>
> >>
> >        Hard Drives are not the same as a rule. I have no idea what your going
> > to do with 500 Gb much less MORE!
> >
> >        With another HD you will see with fdisk -l they look the same but one
> > HD is (hd0) and the other will be (hd1) to Grub. Just play around and
> > you will learn a lot.
> >
> >        I feel like a poor person, I have just 160GB and I 3 versions of Ubuntu
> > running and still lots of space...
> >
> >
> > 73 Karl
> >
> >
> > - --
> >
> >        Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> >        Linux User
> >        #450462   http://counter.li.org.
> >        Key ID = 3951B48D
> 
> Video sucks up space. Music, pictures and PDF suck up the rest on my
> system. Even so, I don't use more than about 250GB. I have been
> thinking of putting my whole collection of DVDs on the computer and
> that takes up 8GB per film but I only own about 20 films, some people
> have 100. I have talked my self into never buying a larger drive. LOL
> Wait, I forgot the new HD Blue Ray disks, what are they? 25GB per
> disk? :-) I don't like to hear my DVD player while watching disks nor
> do I want to wear them out.
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda7              30G   18G  9.8G  65% /
> varrun                1.8G  208K  1.8G   1% /var/run
> varlock               1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /var/lock
> udev                  1.8G   84K  1.8G   1% /dev
> devshm                1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /dev/shm
> lrm                   1.8G   45M  1.7G   3%
> /lib/modules/2.6.24-24-generic/volatile
> /dev/sdb2             417G  177G  219G  45% /home
> /dev/sda5              30G   26G  4.8G  85% /windows (Not really
> windows anymore, has movies)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Douglas E Knapp
> 
> Why do we live?
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