Knoppix Question

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?

 

I'm not really familiar with Linux, but is the flash drive formatted as NTFS, instead of FAT?

 

install and run Gparted & see what free space it thinks is available

 

Well, it's formatted as a FAT. Why? Does that make a difference?

 

You mean to install GPart on Linux or WIndows? I don't even know how to install that app. Sorry never used Linux before. Can you shed some light?

 

Linux

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)

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.