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From: Andrew Langdon-Davies <ald2@arrakis.es>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: partitioning drive
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:01:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4060512C.5080700@arrakis.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403231539.55433.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>


>>
>>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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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-23 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-23 13:02 partitioning drive Rei Shinozuka
2004-03-23 13:10 ` Rei Shinozuka
2004-03-23 13:56   ` chuck gelm
2004-03-23 14:39 ` pa3gcu
2004-03-23 15:01   ` Andrew Langdon-Davies [this message]
     [not found]   ` <20040323180912.GC25879@panix.com>
2004-03-23 21:10     ` pa3gcu
2004-03-23 21:48       ` Ray Olszewski
2004-03-23 22:03         ` pa3gcu

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