My Linux partition is slowly filling up and I want to convert a Windows/NT/MSDOS partition (e.g. /dev/hda6) to Linux. How do I do that?

Follow these steps:

1. Use fdisk's 't' command to change the partition's type to 'Linux native'
2. Make a Linux filesystem on it: mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hda6
3. Add and entry for /dev/hda6 to /etc/fstab
    Use mount point: /aux, fsckorder: 2
4. mkdir /aux
5. reboot
6. that's all!

How to check Linux Partition Size

How do I check how much space my linux partition is? I'm using windows and linux.

try with du or df

df /etc
du /etc
and so on

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