Help with fdisk please

[Simon Fowler]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:51:49PM +0900, ?$B%"%s%H%K!< ?$B%9%F%$%9 wrote:
> I am running out of space on one of my machines,  I *think* I have more
> room on this hard drive, but I havent used fdisk much and I don't want to
> lose any data.  Can someone
> please tell me if I have any room left that I can make another partition
> with.  Do I have some space from Block 633(4?) to 789?  If indeed I have some 
> room left, how do I go about makingthis partition.
> 
> Thanks for the help
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> [root at localhost /root]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda7             1.2G  835M  286M  75% /
> /dev/hda5              53M  4.9M   45M  10% /boot
> /dev/hda6             988M  540M  398M  58% /home
> /dev/hda1             1.6G  1.5G  157M  91% /mnt/win
> [root at localhost /root]# fdisk /dev/hda
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 789 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1       204   1638598+   b  Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2           205       217    104422+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda3           218       789   4594590    5  Extended
> /dev/hda5   *       218       224     56196   83  Linux
> /dev/hda6           353       480   1028128+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda7           481       633   1228941   83  Linux
> 
It looks like it . . . I'm not very familiar with fdisk - I normally
use cfdisk, which explicitly lists free space on the disk. With
Debian I believe cfdisk is installed by default, I'm not sure about
RH or any others.

Whatever the case, you really should make sure you have backups of
all your important data before playing with the partition table like
this - if something goes wrong, you can be left with a completely
hosed system, from which recovery is in the realm of the Gods . . . 
YHBW ;-)

Oh, I notice there's a nice big chunk of free space right at the 
start of the disk, too ;-)

Simon

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