Hi; When I think of disk partions, I shiverrrrrrrr. BUT, I need to make use of disk space I know I have but need to make this safely. Please adivse. Following, is the result of fdisk -l: ======================= Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 3837 30716280 83 Linux /dev/hda3 9473 9726 2040255 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda4 3838 9472 45263137+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 3838 8102 34258581 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order ========================================== [First] Does this mean that I have but one drive? (thought I had two.) Now, based on the following output from df, I *think* that hda4 is available for use. If so, how do I verify thats its empty, if it has a filesystem, and why is its block count larger than hda5 which brings the total gigs to far more than the 80G the drive has. df -h ================================= Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 29G 26G 2.3G 92% / none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 33G 21G 11G 66% /usr ============================================= df =========================================== Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 30233928 26342300 2355816 92% / none 517176 0 517176 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 33720764 21005124 11002712 66% /usr =============================================== Thank you, all. -nat
