Knoppix Question

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Hi all:
I’m new to Linux and wanted to try it before I actually installed it on ny HD. I got the Knoppix CD 5.1 and it’s running perfectly. The problem I’m having is actually with my flash drive. For some reason Knoppix detects a different capacity (it thinks the flash drive is way smaller than it actually is). It’s a 1GB Sandisk (USB-2.0).

Here what I get when I right click and hit “Properties” on Knoppix:
Free Disk Space: 192.00 KB of 974.5 MB (100% used)

Here’s the same properties in windows XP:
[B]Used Space: 200 MB
Free Space: 773 MB

Capacity: 974 MB[/B]

That’s very weird since I have only used 200MB of it. What might be causing this?

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I’m not really familiar with Linux, but is the flash drive formatted as NTFS, instead of FAT?

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install and run Gparted & see what free space it thinks is available

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Well, it’s formatted as a FAT. Why? Does that make a difference?

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You mean to install GPart on Linux or WIndows? I don’t even know how to install that app. Sorry never used Linux before. Can you shed some light?

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Linux

no, GPart guesses the partition layout whereas GParted shows the exact partition layout & if i remember correctly Knoppix is based on *ubuntu, anyway install using your package manager (Adept or Synaptic etc.) unless you want to install from terminal by typingsudo apt-get install gpartedunless you enter root by typingsuthen user password, that way you can remove the “sudo” prefix, & launch GPartedkdesu gparted assuming your using KDE WM (Window Manager)

not really, but, NTFS is a much more secure filesystem, so, much better than FAT / FAT32

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No just type this into a terminal like Konsole.

df -h

Which will show you how much free space there is on all mounted file systems. The -h puts it into human readable format, i.e. Mb, Gb instead of 131241412K.