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Re: resizing the partitions..........
From: |
Mathieu Bruneau |
Subject: |
Re: resizing the partitions.......... |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:13:34 -0400 |
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Venkata Reddy Ch. wrote:
| hai,
| I am on redhat 9 with dual boot (Win XP). I want to add one full
| partition(empty) to another partition. So I have /share of 20GB which i
| am not using. So I want to add that to /home partition.
|
| In this process I used parted and removed that /share with minor number
| 6. Now i am not able to find where that memory is gone and not able to
| resize /home. Here I am giving some info about the sizes I found after I
| removed the /share.
|
| Using parted:
| ============
|
| (parted) rm 6
| (parted) print
| Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-76293.945 megabytes
| Disk label type: msdos
| Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
| 1 0.031 20002.807 primary ntfs boot
| 2 20002.808 30004.211 primary ext3
| 3 30004.211 32004.492 primary linux-swap
| 4 32004.492 76293.061 extended lba
| 5 51003.268 76293.061 logical ext3
| (parted)
|
|
| After removing the /share:
| =====================
|
| address@hidden root]# fdisk -l
|
| Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
| 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
| Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
|
| Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
| /dev/hda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
| /dev/hda2 2551 3825 10241437+ 83 Linux
| /dev/hda3 3826 4080 2048287+ 82 Linux swap
| /dev/hda4 4081 9726 45351495 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
| /dev/hda5 6503 9726 25896748+ 83 Linux
| address@hidden root]#
|
|
| I din't understand what is that /dev/hda5 4081 9726 45351495 f Win95
| Ext'd (LBA) mean really.
|
That is an extended partition, you may need to search on the web for the
difference between extended and primary partition!
Basically an extended partition is a container for other partition...
(You see you /dev/hda5 is inside /dev/hda4)
So here you have free the 20gigs partition which was somewhere between
4081 6502
| Any suggestions regarding this are appriciated.
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| Regards
| Venkata Reddy/
|
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