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

[Bob McClure Jr]

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
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