Nat Gross wrote:
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:
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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
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[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
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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
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df
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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
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Thank you, all.
-nat
I am going to make another suggestion.
At the cost of hard drives, I would purchase a new drive and put that
in.
If you have a second drive, then it isn't being used at all. It would
most likely be /dev/hdb*. What happens if you run "fdisk /dev/hdb" ?
Drive space is cheap enough today to add extra drives where needed. I
have one drive for just temp backups.
Robin
