How to add a new partition to an existing Red HAT 8
bj
bhamal at wlink.com.np
Sun Feb 20 02:53:59 UTC 2005
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
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