Help with fdisk please
Jeremy
jepri at webone.com.au
Thu Mar 28 11:25:55 EST 2002
Posted to list because my mail server chokes on the first non-printing character
(the guy who writes courier strips way too many characters out of email addresses).
Yes. It does appear you have the space. Use cfdisk if possible, it will show
you the blank space you have.
However, unless this is a laptop, you should have a think about slapping in
another drive. 2Gb drives are way cheap, and you are living in the land of
cool electronics.
>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
>
>Command (m for help):
>
>
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