Help with fdisk please

[Kim Holburn]

Unless I've missed something you've got two free chunks.  Wouldn't it be better to use a program that can move your partitions around and add the extra chunks on to the partition you want?  There must be a linux program that can do that otherwise you could use Partition magic.

At 10:51 PM +0900 02/3/27, =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJSIlcyVIJUshPBsoQiAbJEIlOSVGJSQlORsoQg==?= aka. Tony 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

225-352

>/dev/hda6           353       480   1028128+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda7           481       633   1228941   83  Linux

634-789

>
>Command (m for help):

backup

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