Hard drive memory size?

[bkinney]

For some reason, my system info reports about 1 GB of hard drive but my box has 19 GB installed. Even on the system monitor screen it tells me that hda1 is 17GB...not sure what's going on? Is there a problem with my partitions? (RH8)

[ricstr]

/dev/hda is your harddisk, /dev/hda1 is the first partition of your harddisk.

you probably have a /dev/hda2 which will be your linux swap partition and will use up the remainig space of you hard disk.

[michaelk]

The command (need to be root):
fdisk -l (thats a small L)

Will display the partition table. From that you can see how many partitions and what size they are.

The actual filesystem format takes some hard drive space and in addtition there is a 5% reserve for root.

Is 19gb the partition size created or the actual size of the hard drive?