Knoppix Question

dannnyjos

dannnyjos

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Hi all:
I'm new to Linux and wanted to try it before I actually installed it on ny HD. I got the Knoppix CD 5.1 and it's running perfectly. The problem I'm having is actually with my flash drive. For some reason Knoppix detects a different capacity (it thinks the flash drive is way smaller than it actually is). It's a 1GB Sandisk (USB-2.0).

Here what I get when I right click and hit "Properties" on Knoppix:
Free Disk Space: 192.00 KB of 974.5 MB (100% used)

Here's the same properties in windows XP:
Used Space: 200 MB
Free Space: 773 MB

Capacity: 974 MB

That's very weird since I have only used 200MB of it. What might be causing this?
 
dannnyjos said:
You mean to install GPart on Linux or WIndows?
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Linux
dannnyjos said:
I don't even know how to install that app. Sorry never used Linux before. Can you shed some light?
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no, GPart guesses the partition layout whereas GParted shows the exact partition layout & if i remember correctly Knoppix is based on *ubuntu, anyway install using your package manager (Adept or Synaptic etc.) unless you want to install from terminal by typing
Code: 
sudo apt-get install gparted
unless you enter root by typing
Code: 
su
then user password, that way you can remove the "sudo" prefix, & launch GParted
Code: 
kdesu gparted
assuming your using KDE WM (Window Manager)
dannyjos said:
Well, it's formatted as a FAT. Why? Does that make a difference?
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not really, but, NTFS is a much more secure filesystem, so, much better than FAT / FAT32
 
No just type this into a terminal like Konsole.
Code: 
df -h
Which will show you how much free space there is on all mounted file systems. The -h puts it into human readable format, i.e. Mb, Gb instead of 131241412K.
 
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