[95410] in RedHat Linux List
making more space for linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin P Holland)
Sun Oct 18 06:54:27 1998
From: Martin P Holland <m.holland@dial.pipex.com>
Reply-To: m.holland@shef.ac.uk
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:36:46 +0100
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Hi everyone,
Thanks again for the advice. Especially to Jan Carlson who pointed about my
elementary beginner's mistake: I was trying to make a fs on an extended
partition. Doh! So I understand I just need to make a n(ew) l(ogical) partition
in fdisk.
I read the README.fdisk and I am now fairly clear. There are just a couple more
things that are bothering me. I need some reassurance mostly! fdisk /dev/hdb
gives:
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 1 261 2096451 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hdb2 262 262 524 2112547+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdb6 384 384 512 1036161 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb7 513 513 524 96358+ 82 Linux swap
But dmesg says:
hdb: [EZD] [remap 0->1] [525/255/63] hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 >
and / is mounted on /dev/hd5.
In other words fdisk sees hdb6 and hdb7 but dmesg sees hdb5 and hdb6.
Is this just what I should expect after deleting, with dos fdisk, a dos logical
partition? (Before I deleted the dos partition I was mounting / on /dev/hdb6.)
Or is it something to worry about?
Also after doing a v(erify) in fdisk (even after I inserted my logical
partition at 262-383, without w(riting)) it gives a warning
partition 5 has (some number) of unallocated sectors. I suspect that this
does not matter. But I would like confirmation from someone who knows.
Thanks again for your help
Martin
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