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

[Smith, Albert]

fdisk /dev/hda (if it's your primary disk but check /etc/fstab to see what your hd is for your linux mp's.)
n
Press Enter at the starting cylinder
+1G for 1 gig or +1M for 1Meg and so on.
w
q
partprobe
 
if you are running an ext2 fs
then
 
mke2fs /dev/new partition
 
if ext3
 
mke2fs -j /dev/new partition
 
then mount it.
 
 
 
Albert Smith Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT 
Genex Services 
440 E. Swedesford Rd.
 Wayne, PA 19087 
albert.smith at genexservices.com 
(610) 964-5154

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From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Mark Knecht
Sent: Sun 2/20/2005 9:33 AM
To: bhamal at wlink.com.np; Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: How to add a new partition to an existing Red HAT 8



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

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