Hello Everyone. New to Linux/Manjaro. I made the leap to switch from Windows today and installed Manjaro Kde version on my PC.
I saw that my secondary hard drive still had files and folders from my Windows installation and I couldn’t delete them. I found this archived topic and it helped me format the hard disk: [Preformatted text](https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/folders-are-locked-can-access-to-them-but-cant-delete-permanently/25964/14)
But now I see 15.70 GiB of used space on this newly partitioned hard drive. Is this normal?
The only folder I see in the hard drive is lost+found, which I cannot delete.
Linux has several filesystems ext4, btrfs,… and you should not try to install Linux on ntfs.
If you have formatted the drive with a Linux filesystem, then this is ok.
All Linux filesystems have a journal, which consumes space on the drive.
The filesystem itself needs spcae on the disc.
Give real information about the disk, the partition, that we can look at. From what you say this is not normal but you may give improper information. What is output of lsblk and df -Th commands for example?
Possible, but that would mean he roughly has a 300GB disk/partition then?
As mentioned by others, this is both normal, and not. So to give a more correct answer, we need more information. To that end, please provide the output for
sudo fdisk -h
P.S.: When providing terminal output, wrap the text in 3 backticks (```) beforeas well asafter the text. Like this:
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This will just cause it to be rendered like this:
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instead of like this:
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making it much more legible, thus easier for those trying to provide assistance and increasing your chances to receive said assistance.
Alternatively, paste the text, select it all and press the “Preformatted text” (</>) button on the toolbar.
The drive is partitioned with Ext4 and it might be just that, it is the default 5%. Just want to confirm, since others seems to think it might not be normal.
Usage:
fdisk [options] <disk> change partition table
fdisk [options] -l [<disk>...] list partition table(s)
Display or manipulate a disk partition table.
Options:
-b, --sector-size <size> physical and logical sector size
-B, --protect-boot don't erase bootbits when creating a new label
-c, --compatibility[=<mode>] mode is 'dos' or 'nondos' (default)
-L, --color[=<when>] colorize output (auto, always or never)
colors are enabled by default
-l, --list display partitions and exit
-x, --list-details like --list but with more details
-n, --noauto-pt don't create default partition table on empty devices
-o, --output <list> output columns
-t, --type <type> recognize specified partition table type only
-u, --units[=<unit>] display units: 'cylinders' or 'sectors' (default)
-s, --getsz display device size in 512-byte sectors [DEPRECATED]
--bytes print SIZE in bytes rather than in human readable format
--lock[=<mode>] use exclusive device lock (yes, no or nonblock)
-w, --wipe <mode> wipe signatures (auto, always or never)
-W, --wipe-partitions <mode> wipe signatures from new partitions (auto, always or never)
-C, --cylinders <number> specify the number of cylinders
-H, --heads <number> specify the number of heads
-S, --sectors <number> specify the number of sectors per track
-h, --help display this help
-V, --version display version
Available output columns:
gpt: Device Start End Sectors Size Type Type-UUID Attrs Name UUID
dos: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Attrs Boot End-C/H/S Start-C/H/S
bsd: Slice Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Bsize Cpg Fsize
sgi: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Attrs
sun: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Flags
For more details see fdisk(8).
That is an interesting observation. Not sure if that might be a ghost partition.
When installing Manjaro, I chose the option to wipe out all data and then install. So, in theory it might be something non-windows related. I might be wrong.
If I remember correctly Winblows keeps a secret hidden partition which contains the OS for you to recover, I think you should have deleted it in the first place because Manjaro’s installer maybe “saw” only your previous “working” partition, which it told you to wipe out, but I’m not sure right now, have to research it, except someone else already knows.
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