Hello, your hda4 isn't a partition you can format with an fs. A harddrive could have only 4 primary partitions. So if you need more you must use an extended one like your hda4 in this partition you can build many more I think something like 63 (I'm not sure) like your hda5. You at the moment could create new partitions form block 8102 to 9472 into hda4 to get more space in a new partition. The other way is to grow up your hda5, but (please forgive me) it isn't nothing for your skill. And again!!! Don't forget backup before changing any disk-layout !!!!! Regards Falko Am Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:34:34 -0500 schrieb Nat Gross <nat101l@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
