From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SVisor Subject: Re: How to add a new partition to an existing Red HAT 8 Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:20:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: <000701c516f7$582637c0$0db3fea9@kath.state.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <000701c516f7$582637c0$0db3fea9@kath.state.gov> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org bj wrote: ... > 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. You can only have 4 partitions per disk. If you want more than that, you need to make one of them extended (and yes you will loose all data on that partition). // Jarmo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs