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>Basic usage</A
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>	When you start <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GDiskFree</TT
>, you see
	the program's <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Main window</SPAN
>, as shown in 
	<A
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>Figure 1</A
>.
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>Figure 1. GDiskFree Main Window</B
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      </P
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>You'll see a dial for each of the mounted disk drives
      and/or disk partitions on your computer. The position of the
      pointer, and the number beneath it, indicate the amount of space used on the
      disk.</P
><P
>The label at the top of each dial identifies the drive
      or partition it's measuring. <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/dev/hda1</TT
>, for
      example, measures the first partition on the first hard drive
      (hda). <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/dev/fd0</TT
> indicates it's the first
      floppy disk. Other identifiers can include
      <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/dev/sda</TT
>, for the first
      <SPAN
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>SCSI</SPAN
> hard drive, and
      <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/dev/sga</TT
> for the first generic
      <SPAN
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>SCSI</SPAN
> device.</P
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>By default, the drive's mount point (the directory where the drive
      shows up in your filesystem) will be shown beneath the dial.</P
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>         The menu bar, located at the top of the <SPAN
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>Main
         Window</SPAN
>, provides the following commands:
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> This menu contains command
	      <B
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>Exit</B
> (<B
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><SPAN
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>Ctrl-q</SPAN
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>)
	     which is self-explanatory.
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> This menu contains command
	      <B
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>Properties</B
>
	     which launches the  <A
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>General Settings
		  </SPAN
>dialog</A
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>	      This menu contains commands
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>Manual</B
> &#8212;
		    shows this manual
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><LI
><P
><B
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>About</B
> &#8212;
		    shows basic information about
		    <TT
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>GDiskFree</TT
>, such as
		    author's name and version number.
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