gentoolinux evert # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 121G 109G 5.4G 96% / udev 506M 268K 506M 1% /dev /dev/sda2 38M 5.2M 31M 15% /boot none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 157G 61G 96G 39% /mnt/data gentoolinux evert # umount /mnt/data gentoolinux evert # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 121G 109G 5.4G 96% / udev 506M 268K 506M 1% /dev /dev/sda2 38M 5.2M 31M 15% /boot none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm gentoolinux evert # fdisk /dev/sda1 The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 20397. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): m Command action a toggle a bootable flag b edit bsd disklabel c toggle the dos compatibility flag d delete a partition l list known partition types m print this menu n add a new partition o create a new empty DOS partition table p print the partition table q quit without saving changes s create a new empty Sun disklabel t change a partition's system id u change display/entry units v verify the partition table w write table to disk and exit x extra functionality (experts only) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda1: 167.7 GB, 167779229184 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20397 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1p1 ? 13578 119522 850995205 72 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda1p2 ? 45382 79243 271987362 74 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda1p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda1p4 167628 167631 25817+ 0 Empty Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order Command (m for help):