Re: Problems with partitions
Romulo Sousa wrote:
> My girlfriend's box has 40GB IDE disk and it has the following layout:
>
> hda1 10GB NTFS windows
> hda2 512M swap swap
> hda3 15MB Linux /boot
> hda4 5GB Extended /var
> hda5 5GB Linux /
>
Try fdisk -l to see the partitions--what was pasted here doesn't make
sense to me. Extended partitions hold logical partitions, so /var
cannot be an extended partition (but it can be on a logical partition
within the extended partition).
On my box it shows:
# fdisk -l /dev/hdb
Disk /dev/hdb: 30.7 GB, 30735581184 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3736 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 1621 13020651 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 1792 3736 15623212+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb4 1622 1791 1365525 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 1622 1791 1365493+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
On my box, /dev/hdb5 is a logical partition within the extended
partition of /dev/hdb4.
> After the installation of the whole system (unstable), i noticed that
> the there were something strange at df -h cuz i had almost 50% of the
> disk space being used!
> 1 - I would like to know how can i mount the hda4 partition.
> I read the man-page, but i couldn't find any clue to to that. since
> Extended is not a file system, i have a doubt about how can i mount
> that.
Correct, you wouldn't be able to mount the extended partition, but you
can mount the logical partition(s) that are within the extended partition.
>
> 2 - Further, how can i put it into my rc2 for mounting the system all
> the time it is rebooted.
>
That would be done within /etc/fstab, so you'd have an entry like the
following:
partition /mountpoint filesystemtype options 0 0
For example, I have my /home partition mounted at boot-up with the
following entry:
/dev/hda2 /home xfs defaults 0 2
> Moreover, i think i have space not used (i'm not sure about the /
> partition size).
> 3 - Assuming that the information about hda5 above is correct, how can
> i reorganize the whole file systems? Is it possible to see the
> remaining space available into the physical disk?
>
Paste the output of "fdisk -l" and I'll try to go from there.
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