Re: Unusable free space?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as
> reported by df :

> /dev/sda2              99G  886M   93G   1% /
> /dev/sda1             2.0G  170M  1.8G   9% /boot
> /dev/sda5             345G  232G   96G  71% /home
> /dev/sda8              29G  172M   27G   1% /tmp
> /dev/sda6              59G  5.2G   54G   9% /usr
> /dev/sda7              20G  3.1G   17G  16% /var

> Now, at the end, I have some 137 GB unpartitioned/unformatted. How can I use
> this free space, since gparted ran from a LiveCD tells me that I need to
> make a logical partition (which is /dev/sda4) in order to create partitions
> anew in that free space. It's probably lack of sleep, but please help me out
> here. :)

Any friend would tell you (and help you) to setup LVM.


        Stefan