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Re: Problems with partitions



On Apr 9, 2005 3:13 PM, Romulo Sousa <romulosousa@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi there,

Sorry for took too long time to answer you back. As i told you, this
is my girlfriend's computer... :-P
 
anyway...
here we go with the output of the command fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
 
  Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
 /dev/hda1   *         1      1275  10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS
 /dev/hda2          1276      1277     16065   83  Linux
 /dev/hda3          1278      1343    530145   82  Linux swap
 /dev/hda4          1344      1981   5124735    5  Extended
 /dev/hda5          1344      1981   5124703+  83  Linux
 
 and the output of the command df -h
 
 Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 /dev/hda5             4.9G  1.9G  2.7G  42% /
 tmpfs                 125M     0  125M   0% /dev/shm
 /dev/hda1             9.8G  3.4G  6.5G  34% /mnt/windows
 
 I hope these information help somehow.
 
 Best regards,
 
 Romulo Sousa
> On Apr 4, 2005 8:48 PM, Edward J. Shornock
> <debian-ml@crazeecanuck.homelinux.net> wrote:
> > 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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