Re: partitioning drive

[Andrew Langdon-Davies <ald2@arrakis.es>]

>>
>>what's my best best to make this happen?  fips?    fdisk?
>>disk druid?  something on the fedora install disks?
> 
> 
> None of the above unless you have some unpartitioned room on the disk in 
> question.
> AFAIK fips is for FAT partitions (msdos)
> fdisk is only for creating new (when there is room) and deleting old 
> partitions.
> disk-druid (AFAIK) idem dito.
> 
> 
>>this is what it looks like now.
>>
>>[root@tuxedo shino]# df -m
>>Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>/dev/hda3               190140      7085    173397   4% /
>>/dev/hda1                   99         7        88   7% /boot
>>none                       505         0       505   0% /dev/shm
>>
> 
> 
> You have 3 partitions, we cant see if you have any spare room without the 
> output of fdisk 
> 
> fdisk -l /dev/hda
> 
>
What about partboot? A bootdisk with a partition editor:

http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/gnu/parted/bootdisk/

Andrew

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