df

[Sesso]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at Presario-CQ57:/media/bmike1/b956bfb0-9bb1-4288-a5a0-d08b6e0145fb$ 
> 
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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