Help activating available disk space, please.

[Nat Gross]

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