Can’t see Disk Drives in ubuntu

Asked By Geroge Candle 0 points N/A Posted on - 08/20/2011

Dear,

I recently installed Ubuntu lucid Linux on my PC and I used 100% hard drive for the installation, (not dual boot).

Now in "Computer" (Places-Computer) I can't see the my disk drives, Capacity of my disk drive is 40 GB But all I can see is 1 GB free space. Please refer below screen shot for more details.

Any idea about how to solve this matter?

Thanks,

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Answered By elacheche 10 points N/A #116498

Can’t see Disk Drives in ubuntu

Dear,

According to the attached screenshot, you have maybe make a mistake during the installation process, the total contents size is 5.5 GB and you have 1 GB as free space, that's mean that your root disk (/) size is 6.5 GB, so to verify is this is really our case you need to install the Gparted utility.

1. You need to boot using a Live CD.

2. Now go to the System menu and open Gparted (you need to write your password).

3. You can see that in my PC there is 3 GB of free space (the gray area). So I will merge this free space with my root disk, to do this I need to click using the right button of my mouse in the root hard drive, then shows resize/move.

4. Now I need just to increase the new size to the limit, click the Resize/Move button.

5. Click the Apply button.

6. Reboot and open your Ubuntu (Without the live CD).

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• Posted on - 08/22/2011
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