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Ok, so I recently used a lot of Windows 7 and downloaded a bunch of stuff on there that I don't want to use, so I am using a separate hard drive now with Ubuntu. But on the Linux OS, it's saying that I haven't got a lot of space left, I haven't downloaded anything except for maybe 5 or 6 small files and it's saying that I have 500 megabytes left. I'm pretty sure I'm using a whole new hard drive that has 500 gigs of memory.

I probably made a mistake during the setup and put only 700 or so megabytes in Ubuntu, if I did please tell me how I can put more memory in!

Picture of Gparted: https://i.stack.imgur.com/uPmR1.jpg

(I meant Megabytes, sorry!)

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  • Sorry I can't be of more help, but just to make it easy for everyone who looks at this thread, I highly doubt you mean millabyte. A millabyte would be 1/1000 of a byte, which doesn't exist. If the message said MB or MiB then you mean Megabytes or Mebibytes respectively.
    – Globmont
    Jan 22, 2014 at 23:42
  • You can use Disk Space Analyzer to see where all that space goes!
    – user.dz
    Jan 23, 2014 at 0:00
  • open a terminal and post output of "sudo df -h" and of "more /etc/fstab". This will tell you how much space you actually have and where.
    – jctoledo
    Jan 23, 2014 at 0:24
  • Upload gparted screenshot to imgur.com and then provide the link here.
    – Avinash Raj
    Jan 23, 2014 at 2:09
  • Did you install Ubuntu using WUBI.EXE?
    – user68186
    Jan 23, 2014 at 22:18

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Boot from a live media, then use the Gparted on it to expand the partition with low space

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first, Ubuntu needs 5 GB to install in the first place, but to check if your system is really only above the required space, go to the file browser, ("Files") right click "computer" in the left coloum(second to bottom icon, and did I spell that right?) and click properties. under the key for the pie chart. It'll tell you what you have in total. If you did screw this up, you're going to have to go through the installation process again, which sucks, but I have no idea what else you can do.

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