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

[Ed Wilts]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 08:38:59AM +0545, bj wrote:
> 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 . 
> 
> 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 . 

fdisk is the right tool.  The partitioning scheme allows for a maximum
of 4 partitions. One of these can be an extended partitions (essentially
a paritition table link that points to other partitions).  

It looks to me like you have 4 primary partitions.  In this case, you'll
need to delete one partition and then create an extended partition.

Please print out your partition table and we can confirm that.

-- 
Ed Wilts, RHCE
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