After you make the partition a file system with:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/<name>
You can also type "df -h" to make it more readable.
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> On Jul 11, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I type in 'df' to see what it reports as free space but the new partition I created (/dev/sda2) isn't listed. I then typoe in 'df /dev/sda2' and it says the filesystem is udev. Some questions: what do they mean by udev? and Why isn't it listed as /dev/sda2? Also, how should I get it to list properly? Does this perhaps mean I should reboot?
>
> bmike1@Presario-CQ57:/media/bmike1/b956bfb0-9bb1-4288-a5a0-d08b6e0145fb$ df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 11963960 5836284 5496892 52% /
> none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> udev 805300 4 805296 1% /dev
> tmpfs 164156 1328 162828 1% /run
> none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
> none 820772 10460 810312 2% /run/shm
> none 102400 36 102364 1% /run/user
> /dev/sda6 50264772 32493124 15195264 69% /home
> /dev/sda8 51765860 13959272 35153916 29% /media/bmike1/b956bfb0-9bb1-4288-a5a0-d08b6e0145fb
> /dev/sda7 85924248 30300452 51235956 38% /media/bmike1/entertainment
> bmike1@Presario-CQ57:/media/bmike1/b956bfb0-9bb1-4288-a5a0-d08b6e0145fb$ df /dev/sda2
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> udev 805300 4 805296 1% /dev
> bmike1@Presario-CQ57:/media/bmike1/b956bfb0-9bb1-4288-a5a0-d08b6e0145fb$
>
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