<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 18 Apr 2009, at 5:06PM, MG wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Sorry I was just expressing worry<br>Any help?</blockquote><div><br></div>Read the last comment below. You need to give us more information before we can really help.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/18 Thorny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thorntreehome@gmail.com">thorntreehome@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:18:45 +0100, MG posted:<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> > I seem to have lost 500 gigs of space I think 300 is from a hard drive<br> > that needs to be formatted how much is Ubuntu with all the sound extras<br> > (synths etc) likely to take up?????<br> ><br> ><br> >> why do I get no accurate freespace readings? why does 1 drive seem to<br> >> have shrunk to 3 Gig????? Thx<br> </div></div>>>[...]<br> <br> In case you are new to asking for help on a list, I will explain a bit<br> about the comments that poster marc made about your post.<br> <br> Your posting style is such that many of the most helpful posters here will<br> just ignore your question and that will be unproductive in getting you<br> useful help efficiently.<br> <br> All caps is though of as shouting here in cyberspace and it has an effect<br> similar to walking into a room and shouting for people to help you, in<br> short, it is annoying to many people reading the posts.<br> <br> There is a fairly good writeup of posting style at wikipedia:<br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style</a><br> <br> There is an explanation of mailing list etiquette on Ubuntu mailing lists<br> at:<br> <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette</a><br> <br> There is this brief description of how to ask for help effectively.<br> <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToGetHelp#How%20to%20ask%20for%20help" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToGetHelp#How%20to%20ask%20for%20help</a><br> <br> If you have more time, also read the link provided there, it goes into<br> much more detail about how to ask questions that get good answers:<br> <a href="http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html" target="_blank">http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html</a><br> <br> It's very hard to give any kind of reasonable answer to the "questions"<br> you've asked here other than to say a fresh install of Ubuntu is not going<br> to use anywhere near the kind of "lost" space you're trying to track down.<br> <br> Tell us more about your system, is this the drive you've installed Ubuntu<br> on? If so does it boot up correctly? Did you do any partitioning? What<br> commands are you using to try and "find" the space. Help us to help you.<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> --<br> ubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> -- <br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>