No Drive detected

[benfany]

Hi Everyone,

i am new with raspberry,
i just installed new OS and could not see my drive on list,

Screen Shooot No Drive

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i am using 8 GB of SD card, i believe this card is not 100% used by GPU and we can split it as our hard drive,

can you please let me know how to make this splitted ?

regards,
Benfany

[FTrevorGowen]

Hi Everyone,
i am new with raspberry,
i just installed new OS and could not see my drive on list,

No drive.JPG

i am using 8 GB of SD card, i believe this card is not 100% used by GPU and we can split it as our hard drive,
can you please let me know how to make this splitted ?
regards,
Benfany

What you're seeing is normal - Linux does not use "drive letters" (C:\, D:\ etc.) like Windows. The file-manager happens to be showing user Pi's "home" and "desktop" directories by default. If you go up two levels (to /home and then /) you will see the rest of the SDHC card's file structure. Note also, that if you used NOOBS to install the O.S. (Raspbian, I guess) that NOOBS' recovery partition will take up around 1.2Gb (and this, "FAT" partition, will be the only one visible to Windows which doesn't understand Linux partition types).
Trev.

[Richard-TX]

Like Trevor said, drive letters do not exist under unix. If they did I have seen some systems that would be severely limited by the alphabet as they had hundreds of file systems (drives) mounted.
What happens under unix is that a file system is mounted someplace under root. For example if there were 3 groups that wanted to give their users their own drive, they might mount each drive as follows:

/home/tech
/home/engineers
/home/marketing

So the questions are what size are the drives, and where are they? df will show you what you want to know.

In short, each drive becomes a seamless and integral part of the directory tree.