Brand new Linux user and fumbling through the learning curve with openSUSE LEAP and KDE Plasma environment.

I downloaded KDE Partition Manager to delete Windows from the hard drive. I successfully deleted Windows, but now the ex-Windows ~75GiB space is sitting as "unallocated" in the partition manager and is only using 35GiB (which is the Max size, per KDE Partition Manager).

In the file manager Dolphin, under Devices (left column), it states "35.0 GiB Hard Drive", which makes me think I don't have access to the other 75 GiB at all.

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Bonus Question: Why do the majority of the command line tutorials start their lines off with "$"? IE:

$ cd ~

Whenever I input the $ before a command in Konsole, I get:

If '$' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
cnf $

As far as the partition goes, you will need to "grow" the adjoining partition so that space can be used. I do not use KDE and have never used their partition tool so perhaps another user who has can better assist as to how to do that.

As for the "$", that is just the prompt. Prompts can look different depending on the shell you are using. The "$" is not meant to be typed in, it is already there. Not sure that makes sense. You don't add the "$".

Welcome to Linux - Leap is a great distro, I used it for a time and never had any issues.

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$ is a representation of an ordinary user's shell prompt. That actual shell prompt varies according to configuration and environment. It is not intended to actually be typed.

In Konsole please do thisand paste the output here using code tags ( # above this input window). With this we can see and explain your disk space and possibly recommend action to take.

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In addition to the good answers from the posters above, you have to bear in mind that non-allocated space is really non-allocated. You can start using it when you've allocated it to a partition.

You might try to allocate the now still non-allocated space to the partition your system is at ("grow" your partition) or you may make a new partition and mount that partition somewhere in your file system. This is the same for all OS'ses, not just for Linux.

Furthermode, you have to understand that the Linux file system looks the same but is in fact a little different. A folder in your main system partition can be just a folder. However you can also mount network shares in your file system. This makes it all very flexible because you can manipulate your file system to suit your needs.

It varies by Linux distributions, but most of the time

$ means you are signed on as, user

and

# means you are signed on as, root.

99% of the time you want to be signed on as user.
Root is for maintenance, software installation, etc.

Thanks for the answers.

There is no "Mark this thread as solved" option within Thread Tools. Am I missing something?

Disregard: The option showed up in the menu the moment I posted this reply, of course.