Hello everybody, I want to make a new 16 MB partition on the end of my /dev/sda SSD. Currently the SSD is partitioned in one ext2 /dev/sda1. My question is how can i make this new partition with the CLI tools. I tried several things but they keep failing because I don't know how to calculate with blocks , sectors and MB. Would somebody willing to learn me some things and maybe show some examples. I also have some parted question on how to just make a partition from the free space on the end of the disk. Thanks in advance, Best regards, Jelle current situation ext2 /dev/sda1, wanted situation ext2 /dev/sda1 and 16MB 0xef /dev/sda2 on the end of /dev/sda 16MB 0xef PS. I know I got some fsck -n /dev/sda1 errors here. Working on that too. $ dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda1 dumpe2fs 1.41.6 (30-May-2009) Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: 3e6384e0-dcaf-4c93-972f-f54c00a7dd22 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: filetype sparse_super Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: not clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 492032 Block count: 983973 Reserved block count: 49198 Free blocks: 119386 Free inodes: 355584 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 15872 Inode blocks per group: 496 Last mount time: Tue Jun 23 10:52:00 2009 Last write time: Tue Jun 23 10:52:11 2009 Mount count: 9 Maximum mount count: 30 Last checked: Tue Jun 23 00:23:53 2009 Check interval: 0 (<none>) Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 $ sfdisk -d /dev/sda # partition table of /dev/sda unit: sectors /dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 7871787, Id=83, bootable /dev/sda2 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/sda3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/sda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 $ fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 4034 MB, 4034838528 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 490 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xfb38fb38 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 490 3935893+ 83 Linux bc <<< "16*1024" 16384 bc <<< "3935893 - 16384" 3919509 echo "3935893 - 16384" | bc 3919509 resize2fs /dev/sda1 3919509 bc <<< "4034-16" resize2fs /dev/sda1 4018M # result: partition is only 983973 (4K) blocks # requested: 1028608 blocks # will not fit exiting # how can I convert the free space to a partition with parted? sudo /sbin/parted --script /dev/sda \ mkpart primary 3919509 100% \ print _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
