How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?
Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I partitioned my 120GB hard drive.
I think that I did not allocate all the space to used partitions.
i mounted /boot at /dev/hda1
/ at /dev/hda2
/home at /dev/hda3
swap at /dev/hda5.
me:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 19G 16G 1.7G 91% /
tmpfs 507M 4.0K 507M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 89M 24M 60M 29% /boot
/dev/hda3 19G 17G 557M 97% /home
tmpfs 507M 148K 507M 1% /dev
Not that I see only 39GB used here.
Now I am running out of room and I want to use the rest of the space on the
disk.
fdisk /dev/hda
p
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 13 2444 19535040 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 2445 4876 19535040 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 4877 5119 1951897+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 4877 5119 1951866 82 Linux swap
Command (m for help): n
No free sectors available
Command (m for help): ?
?: unknown command
Command action
Command (m for help): u
Changing display/entry units to sectors
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 63 192779 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 192780 39262859 19535040 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 39262860 78332939 19535040 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 78332940 82236734 1951897+ 5 Extended
Why does fdisk find no free space?
When I run qtparted it says
number partition type status size used space start end label
04 /dev/hda4 extended 1.86GB
05 /dev/hda5 linux-swap 1.86GB
06 /dev/hda-1 free 72.57GB N/A 39.21GB 111.79
It seems I left out alot of space from the logical (extended) partition - how
do I reclaim it? Also can someone tell me where I can read more about this
issue?
Mitchell
me:~# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/hdc iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/hdd iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat rw,users 0 0
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