Can you provide an example output and point what's the problem on it?
The following session with the Parted sources from the Git tree can be taken as an example. I have also added the output of 'df' to point the amount of usage on each file-system. [EMAIL PROTECTED] parted-build]$ sudo parted/parted /dev/hda GNU Parted 1.8.0 Using /dev/hda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print free Model: ST93015A (ide) Disk /dev/hda: 30.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 98.7MB 98.7MB primary ext3 boot 2 98.7MB 19.4GB 19.3GB primary ext3 3 19.4GB 25.9GB 6440MB primary ext3 4 25.9GB 30.0GB 4137MB extended 5 25.9GB 28.0GB 2147MB logical ext3 6 28.0GB 29.1GB 1077MB logical ext3 7 29.1GB 29.3GB 239MB logical ext3 8 29.3GB 30.0GB 674MB logical linux-swap (parted) select /dev/hda1 Using /dev/hda1 (parted) print free Model: Unknown (unknown) Disk /dev/hda1: 98.7MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00kB 98.7MB 98.7MB ext3 (parted) quit Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary. [EMAIL PROTECTED] parted-build]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 18G 15G 1.9G 89% / /dev/hda1 92M 19M 68M 22% /boot /dev/hda3 6.0G 5.1G 616M 90% /data tmpfs 109M 0 109M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda7 221M 153M 57M 74% /devel /dev/hda5 2.0G 1.6G 256M 87% /home /dev/hda6 996M 737M 208M 78% /tmp /iso/fc5-dvd.iso 3.1G 3.1G 0 100% /mnt/fc5-dvd-iso /dev/sda1 492M 465M 2.0M 100% /media/pendr [EMAIL PROTECTED] parted-build]$ Happy hacking, Debarshi -- I only work when I am not doing any assignments. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel

