On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 08:52:54AM -0700, Kevin Musick wrote:

fdisk is not yet friendly to the hurd.  To make df work, specify a 
directory after df so:

# df .

or 

# df /

And it will give you the space free for the partition that that directory 
is a member of.

Hope this helps!

> I can't seem to get FDISK nor DF to work properly.  DF always produces the
> error "cannot read table of mounted file systems" and FDISK spews many error
> messages.  The only device name that seems to work with FDISK is the name of
> my extended partition, hd0s2.  However, it lists that partition as having a
> logical Linux swap partition (which is correct) and then another extended
> partition (obviously incorrect).
> 
> I originally installed via the large tarball and have updated using the
> hurd-20000301.tar.gz posting.  (I cannot use the Debian package system,
> because dpkg seems to develop circular dependencies between packages.)  Have
> I done something stupid or do the FDISK and DF utilities not yet work?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin

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