Re: (no subject)

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

First, a bit of background:  The partition table consists of two parts
- the main table, which has room for four partitions, and possibly an
extension table.  Now see my comments below:

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:50:26PM +0530, TMAN wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am sending partion table list with attachment.

<to wit:>

Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1292 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       277   2094088+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda2           278       752   3591000    5  Extended
/dev/hda3           753       929   1338120   83  Linux
/dev/hda4           930       947    136080   82  Linux swap

The above are the four entries in the main table.  The primary
partitions are hda1, 3, and 4.  hda2 is an "extended" partition, which
is a kind of pointer to the extension which contains the following
"logical partitions"

/dev/hda5           278       554   2094088+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda6           555       752   1496848+   6  FAT16

There are several possible solutions.  The simplest would be to
install another drive, partition it the way you want it, and then copy
stuff from the first drive to it.  Then install the second drive in
place of the first, though that will require the preparation of boot
floppies to get things going again.

Another is to delete hda4 (the Linux swap partition), and recreate it
as another extended partition, running from 930-1292, then make a new
swap partition as logical partition of that extension, and any other
partitions as desired.  That could be done by booting Linux in single
user mode and turning off swap (swapoff) before deleting the
partition.

I don't know if this works (don't try it without a good backup of
everything), but you may be able to use "parted" to make hda2 bigger.
Then you could create more logical partitions out of the newly
available space.  My only attempt at parted was frustrated by failure,
possibly brought on by operator error.  Any parted experts care to
weigh in, here?

> Regards
> TMAN
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ABrady" <kcsmart kc rr com>
> To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 11:05 AM
> Subject: Re: (no subject)
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:16:59 +0530 "TMAN" <tman76in yahoo com> imparted
> > to us:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have 10GB Hard disk, out of that c: 2.0 Fat Primary partion,3.5GB
> > > extented out of that D:2.0GB E:1.5 then Linux native 1.28GB Swap 133
> > > MB. Total 7156 MB is used.Out of the free space I can't create partion
> > > thro win98/win2K/Linux 7.1. I tryed with FDISK, Disk Manager in Win2K
> > > , Fdisk in Linux Also its showing a error that no more free cylinders
> > > to create partion.
> > > 
> > > Actually total cylinders 1292 right now total used 947.
> > > 
> > > Can i create one more parion......Any help..


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