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    I think I messed somthing up

    Hi all I have had troubles with my dads computer and I used a DSl live cd version 3.4 I think(ubuntu wouldn't load) and I kept getting a hard disk error. So I dmesg | grep hd and get the out put then I get this idea to do it on my machine loaded with hardy. Now I got nothing from the output and like a dummy I did a sudo dmesg |grep hd and still got nothing. I went on to do something else like download a torrent and I noticed something strange like azureus wasn't even a option when choosing a torrent client. So I use locate in terminal and it shows up so I try to find it using the option to pick the client to open the torrent file with and I can't locate it even though terminal locate told me where it is. I check and my file system is showing all crazy numbers when I click on properties. I reinstall azureus and it has all my torrents and everything seems fine (except main file system size reporting) so I am at a loss as to what happened and how to fix it. any ideas ? thanks in advance for your time and suggestion

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    Re: I think I messed somthing up

    What exactly do you mean by "my file system is showing all crazy numbers"? I don't believe that dmesg should be able to do anything to your system from a brief look at the man page.
    I do not use Ubuntu any more, nor have I ever used Gnome. Therefore, I tend to give advice that is distro- and DE-agnostic, which, while perhaps not the easiest way, will allow you to move freely between machines.

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    Re: I think I messed somthing up

    my hard drive is a 100 GB and its showing it as 197.1 GB

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    Re: I think I messed somthing up

    What OS is installed on your dad's machine?

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    Re: I think I messed somthing up

    my dad's was a windows xp box now its a dsl live cd for the moment I'm on a hardy box

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    Re: I think I messed somthing up

    What was the problem that was happening in XP?

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