How to add a new partition to an existing Red HAT 8

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:39:46 +0545, bj <bhamal at wlink.com.np> wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I have a red hat 8.0 & Windows 2000 on a intel box with a 60 GB hard drive .
> 
> Only 20 GB has been partitioned into 10 GB of NTFS and 9 GB of Linux , file
> id 83 ext 3 and 1 GB of Linux swap , file id 82 .
> 
> I want to use some free unallocated space from the remaining 40 GB for my
> linux .
> 
> But I could not get fdisk (from the command prompt ) to show me the
> unallocated space  and partition it .
> 

Hi,
   As root

mount
df
cat /etc/fstab

to show what the setup is.

Probably 

fdisk /dev/hda

and when in fdisk 'p' to show the partitions. Adjust hda to whatever
you might actually have based on the mount results.

Cheers,
Mark