Sven: On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:29:46 +0100, you wrote:
>/dev/sda5 to /dev/sda8 are logical partitions inside an extended >partition. The extended partition is /dev/sda2. How did you know that? sda6 isn't even a mounted filesystem--sda1, 5, 7 and 8 are the mounted filesystems for /, /tmp, /var, and /home respectively. How did /dev/sda6 get in there? It shows as swap. >Hint: try the tool "lsblk" to see where which filesystem resides. NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk tqsda1 8:1 0 8.4G 0 part / tqsda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part tqsda5 8:5 0 2.8G 0 part /var tqsda6 8:6 0 13.4G 0 part [SWAP] tqsda7 8:7 0 380M 0 part /tmp mqsda8 8:8 0 86.9G 0 part /home sdb 8:16 0 232.9G 0 disk sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom OK, I see /dev/sdb is the 250G disk which probably needs partitioning and formatting. Thanks for the hint. Always learning these single-purpose tools is one of the ! joys of Linux.