Re: fdisk

["M.C. Vernon" <mcv21@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, David Parmet wrote:

> 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?

You haven't put the free space into a partition.

HTH,

Matthew

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