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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 7:20 AM Subject: fdisk > > >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? >------------------------------------------------------ >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. > > > >_________________________________________________________ >DO YOU YAHOO!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >