thank at all, but the fdisk of my fedora core 2 don't want understand .... i break my HD with my CD of redhat 7.3 now i have 2 partition ... somewhere, i send this bug at redhat ... thank alexandre Le vendredi 29 Octobre 2004 07:22, Jonathan Berry a écrit : > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:30:18 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings > > <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > OK, you've created 1 new partition, 80GB in size. > > Now you have to run mkfs on this partition. You've created it, but it > > contains no data yet, worse, you're probably reading the *old* 20GB data > > left over from the previous partitioning that you destroy. > > If you want two partitions, run fdisk again and enter +40G at the prompt: > > Dernier cylindre ou +taille or +tailleM ou +tailleK (1-158816, default > > 158816): > > Then add primary 2 with the defaults. By the way, there is no need to > reboot between deleting the old partitions and creating the new ones. > In fact, you can do this without even exiting fdisk. Just delete the > 80 GB partition and create the 2 new 40 GB ones, if that is what you > want now. > > > You need to understand that partitioning only draws the lines on the > > disk where the files system will live. It does not re-write the > > superblocks, directories, or data between those lines. That is the job > > of mkfs. (Or in your case, mkfs.ext3 if you want an ext3 file system.) > > Yes, this is correct. Interesting result, I must say; I've never > tried that : ). The command I use is: > # mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1 > to make the file system on the first partition. Repeat with /dev/hdb2 > if you go with two partitions. This is the same as mkfs.ext3 (ext3 is > ext2 with journalling, the -j option). Note that this will ERASE the > data that is currently on the disk. It seems this is what you want, > but just making sure. > I don't know if you could somehow run fsck on the disk with the new > partition table and have it fix the filesystem to take up the new > partition space. Anyone know if this is theoretically possible, out > of curiosity? > > Jonathan
