Re: fdisk
hello Kenneth:
You have to mount your partition after you create a file system
mkfs [device] - to make a file system before you can
mount it.
Then run df.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Scharf <scharkalvin@yahoo.com>
To: dparmet@interport.net <dparmet@interport.net>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 7:20 AM
Subject: fdisk
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>i'm trying to eliminate one partition (accidentally i made two swap
>partitions.. i'm a newbie). ran fdisk, edited fstab so far so good.
>rebooted ok. so far so good.
>
>i typed df and the freed up space (25 megs) still doesn't show up.
>
>any suggestions in fdisk? basically i deleted the partition, typed "w"
>and quit. did i miss something?
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>It looks like you deleted the extra partition. But unless you also
>delete your main partition, and then re-create it with the extra space
>free'd up by deleting the extra partition you won't be using that
>extra space. Your main partition didn't grow any just because you
>deleted a swap partition. You simply have 25m of unused space on your
>disk now.
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