On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:37 AM, jackson byers <byersjab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I asked this questiion in another thread > "f10 liveinstall cd trashed my main fc5" > > but i think it got lost in my longish msg > > # fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 36.7 GB, 36703934464 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4462 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 2676 21494938+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 2677 3163 3911827+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/sda3 3164 4462 10434217+ 83 Linux > > sda1 size ~ 21.5 G > > but using df: > # df -kh > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdb6 7.7G 5.6G 1.8G 77% / > tmpfs 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sda1 190M 5.6M 175M 4% /mnt/sda1 > > sda1 size = 190M > > how possible? > advice, help on further diagnosing this? > Jack After using fdisk or parted, one must do "partprobe" at the CLI to record the changes. Both the OS and the Kernel need to know the changes. Since your boot partition is involved, you may need a LiveCD for this. Do "man partprobe" for more info. HTH, ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
