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

[bj]

Hi !

Thank you for the prompt reply .

The result of fdisk -l /dev/hda is as ffs :-


Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       574   4610623+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2           575      1097   4200997+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3          1098      1228   1052257+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4          1229      1835   4875727+   7  HPFS/NTFS


I think I hit the limitation of 4 primary partitions .

Please advice .

cheers,
bj




-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bob McClure
Jr
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 2:09 AM
To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: How to add a new partition to an existing Red HAT 8


On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 08:39:46AM +0545, bj 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 .
>
> I could see the unallocated free space when I run KDE hardware browser .
>
> I could find the GUI disk druid too .
>
> So How do I partition the unused free space for my red hat 8.0 .
>
> Which utility do I use ?
>
> When ever  I use  fdisk , and choose option n ( to add a partition ) , it
> gives an error message saying that I need extended partition or I need to
> delete old partition to create a new one .
>
> But I have 40 GB of un used space on my hard drive.
>
> Please advice .
>
> Thank you for your help in advance .
>
> cheers,
> bj

Run

  fdisk -l /dev/hda

and let us see what it says.

Cheers,
--
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
The best home improvement manual is the Bible.

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