Memory loss

[Cyber Sheep]

Hello, Ubuntu Forums.

I have run into a problem. My laptop (HP Pavilion dv6 3240-us entertainment PC with AMD premium tri-core processor) originally had Windows when I bought it. Naturally, I wanted to change it to Ubuntu. I did so.

However, when I checked my memory and RAM, my memory was only 20GB. My laptop came with 570GB of memory and 4GB RAM. I don't know if this problem was caused by me being careless and installing Ubuntu on a different partition other than the main one or what. Is there any way I can get my full memory back without re-installing?

[bluexrider]

You want to know how much space you have on your hard drive?

In terminal run this command

sudo fdisk -l "small -L"

[WasMeHere]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Forums, Cyber Sheep :-)

What flavour of Ubuntu have you installed (vanilla Ubuntu with Unity Desktop)? And which version (11.10 or an earlier version)?

Please post the results of the following two terminal commands

sudo fdisk -lu
sudo df
Knowing this makes it easier to help.

Have fun finding out about Ubuntu :-)
Olle

[Cyber Sheep]

You want to know how much space you have on your hard drive?

No, I only have 20GB on my hard drive when I'm supposed to have 570GB.

[Cyber Sheep]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Forums, Cyber Sheep :-)

What flavour of Ubuntu have you installed (vanilla Ubuntu with Unity Desktop)? And which version (11.10 or an earlier version)?

Please post the results of the following two terminal commands

sudo fdisk -lu
sudo dfKnowing this makes it easier to help.

Have fun finding out about Ubuntu :-)
Olle

Thank you :)
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot with GNOME shell.



Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders, total 1250263728 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d4b88

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1225687039 612842496 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1225689086 1250263039 12286977 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1225689088 1250263039 12286976 82 Linux swap / Solaris





Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 603225904 66356448 506227332 12% /
udev 1922340 4 1922336 1% /dev
tmpfs 772892 1028 771864 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 1932224 1360 1930864 1% /run/shm
/home/omer/.Private 603225904 66356448 506227332 12% /home/omer

[WasMeHere]

You have 603225904 kbytes
in your ubuntu file system (approx. 603 GB and you use only 12% of it now, so there is approx. 500 GB free to use :-)


Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 603225904 66356448 506227332 12% /
How did you come to the conclusion, that you have only 20GB?

[Cyber Sheep]

You have 603225904 kbytes
in your ubuntu file system (approx. 603 GB and you use only 12% of it now, so there is approx. 500 GB free to use :-)

How did you come to the conclusion, that you have only 20GB?
Maybe even less. I ran this in the terminal:



omer@Omer:~$ grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 3864452 kB


Meaning this many GB: 3.68543

[CryptAck]

Maybe even less. I ran this in the terminal:

Meaning this many GB: 3.68543

You are confusing hard drive space and memory. "Memory" typically refers to "RAM", not hard drive space.

[WasMeHere]

That is the available RAM. I suggest that you use the GUI tool
gnome-system-monitor to get such information. It is also a menu item.

[Cyber Sheep]

You are confusing hard drive space and memory. "Memory" typically refers to "RAM", not hard drive space.

Hmm... I see. Thanks for this. I'll look into it.

[Cyber Sheep]

According to gnome-system-monitor, I have approximately 500GB left, as Olle said.

This has been resolved, thank you to everyone for helping me.

[CryptAck]

According to gnome-system-monitor, I have approximately 500GB left, as Olle said.

This has been resolved, thank you to everyone for helping me.

You're Welcome! :)

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Thanks!

[bluexrider]

You want to know how much space you have on your hard drive?

In terminal run this command

sudo fdisk -l "small -L"

humm reason for my original question. redundant now

Mark this

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