Help activating available disk space, please.
Nat Gross
nat101l at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 02:02:33 UTC 2005
On 12/14/05, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> Nat,
>
> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 08:42 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> > Nat Gross wrote:
> > > Hi;
> > > When I think of disk partions, I shiverrrrrrrr. BUT, I need to make
> > > use of disk space I know I have but need to make this safely. Please
> > > adivse.
> > > Following, is the result of fdisk -l:
> > > =======================
> > > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > >
> > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > > /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> > > /dev/hda2 14 3837 30716280 83 Linux
> > > /dev/hda3 9473 9726 2040255 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> > > /dev/hda4 3838 9472 45263137+ 5 Extended
> > > /dev/hda5 3838 8102 34258581 83 Linux
> > >
> > > Partition table entries are not in disk order
<snip>
> If you want another partition just run fdisk and create it from the available space.
This new partition would be hda6 using 8103 thru 9472. Yes?
> > Drive space is cheap enough today to add extra drives where needed. I
> > have one drive for just temp backups.
> >
> Agreed
True. But I'd rather get a new system than open this case and risk the
existing hardware. So, if fdisk isn't so risky, and the extra 10gig
will keep this going for a while..I'll go for fdisk.
Thanks;
-nat
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