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Author: kitepilot@kitepilot.com
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Subject: Re: df
Or perhaps you just got ready to forget it again... ;-)
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Michael Havens writes:

> I figured it out! I think /dev/sda2 is my swap. It seems /dev/sda3 is the
> partition I just created. I rebooted and ran df and everything was there.
> Then a thought happened (a rare thing) and I umounted the devices and they
> were no longer shown with df. so I learned something new. or perhaps I just
> relearned it.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Mike Ballon <> wrote:
>
>> Did you mount format /dev/sda2, mount it as something? udev is just the
>> device manager
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Michael Havens <> 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$ 

>>>
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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