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    Need help recovering 2GB of Harddrive space

    When I went through the knx-hdinstall, I left
    all the partitions the way they were.


    so I have
    hda1 as the boot
    hda5 as the swap
    hda6 as an extra partition that was there.

    if I do $ cat /proc/partitions i get
    major minor #blocks name

    3 0 5004720 hda
    3 1 2887888 hda1
    3 5 249448 hda5
    3 6 1867288 hda6

    In my /mnt I have hda1 and hda6 listed and I can access them, but
    anything that I put into hda6 is seen as part of hda1.

    When I use KDiskFree. It only recognizes hda1

    so I am missing 2GB od space

    can anyone help me recover the extra 2GB that are hidden?

    thanks in advance for your help,

    Luis

    P.S. A simple step by step solution would be appreciated...I'm still learning linux.

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    You have to mount hda6. Use the mount command in a console window to see what is mounted on your system. If /dev/hda6 is not there then as root mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 will mount and now anything you save to /mnt/hda6 will be on the device hda6. If you want to use the space all the time you should modify the /etc/fstab to mount /dev/hda6 on boot.
    [edit]
    ie. remove the # from the /dev/hda6 line that should already be there.
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    Stephen,

    The mounting worked! Thank you so much. One more question
    This is my fstab file should I also uncomment the hda1 above hda6? Becuase It is already uncommented once

    # /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
    #
    # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
    /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
    /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
    /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
    /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
    # partitions found by Knoppix
    #/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
    /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0

    or should I just leave everything else as it is?

    Luis

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    You just need it there once. Knoppix puts all partitions it finds in the fstab commented out. Good luck with Knoppix and post back if you have any problems.

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