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

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

El Domingo 20 Febrero 2005 03:53, bj escribió:
> 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

You can use parted.
There is also a beautiful GUI for that programa, called qtparted, you can get 
it here:
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/

Cheers

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Manuel Arostegui Ramirez #Linux Registered User 200896
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