Re: resizing the partitions..........

[Mathieu Bruneau]

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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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