Ubuntu storage.

wolfeking

wolfeking

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okay, so I was looking to see how full my hard drive is, so I can tell if I need to get a new one soon (its failing, so useless anyway), and I noticed that 12.04 is telling me that I have 100+ TB of data and 60 some GB free. My worry is that with the size of the stored data so far off, how accurate is the free space? I know its a 80 GB 7200 RPM drive, and 12.04 is all that is on here.

Here is a pic of exactly what I am seeing.
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It seems that ubuntu has a problem with memory. It doesn't recognize one of my partitions. I can read the one with windows, but i can't read my work documents partition, and it's very annoying, bevause i preffer working on ubuntu rather that windows, but i can't see the partition...
 
It does not have a problem with memory at all. The issue is one of 2 things for you. 1. It is partitioned in a table that ubuntu can not read, or you have a hidden partition there.
 
It's because of /proc

Don't worry about it. It's a part of the Linux System, just ignore it. As far as judging actual used/free space, gparted works well.
Edit: I get what your saying. The free space part is right, but so is the used, at least theatrically with how the system works.

For reference, I asked the same question on the crunchbang forum a long time ago. My /proc looked like this:
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