You may also want to post your syntax. If you fdisk /dev/sda1 as opposed to fdisk /dev/sda then you won't see any unallocated space. Regards, Marshall -----Original Message----- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:39 AM To: bhamal@xxxxxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: How to add a new partition to an existing Red HAT 8 On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 08:38:59AM +0545, bj wrote: > I have a red hat 8.0 & Windows 2000 on a intel box with a 60 GB hard drive . > > Only 20 GB has been partitioned into 10 GB of NTFS and 9 GB of Linux , file > id 83 ext 3 and 1 GB of Linux swap , file id 82 . > > I want to use some free unallocated space from the remaining 40 GB for my > linux . > > But I could not get fdisk (from the command prompt ) to show me the > unallocated space and partition it . > > I could see the unallocated free space when I run KDE hardware browser . > > When ever I use fdisk , and choose option n ( to add a partition ) , it > gives an error message saying that I need extended partition or I need to > delete old partition to create a new one . fdisk is the right tool. The partitioning scheme allows for a maximum of 4 partitions. One of these can be an extended partitions (essentially a paritition table link that points to other partitions). It looks to me like you have 4 primary partitions. In this case, you'll need to delete one partition and then create an extended partition. Please print out your partition table and we can confirm that. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
