Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

[Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>]

On 20/10/22 06:57, William Torrez Corea wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:32 PM Bret Busby <bret@busby.net 
> <mailto:bret@busby.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 20/10/22 06:19, Bret Busby wrote:
>      > On 20/10/22 05:51, William Torrez Corea wrote:
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:34 PM Jude DaShiell
>     <jdashiel@panix.com <mailto:jdashiel@panix.com>
>      >> <mailto:jdashiel@panix.com <mailto:jdashiel@panix.com>>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >>     This is likely inaccurate information.
>      >>     What output returns when you run:
>      >>     lsblk /dev/sda?
>      >>     First requirement for a new partition is available space.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> I have the following output:
>      >>
>      >> NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
>      >> sda      8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk
>      >> ├─sda1   8:1    0 922.7G  0 part /
>      >> └─sda2   8:2    0   8.8G  0 part [SWAP]
>      >>
>      >> I have 770.83 GB free memory
>      >> --
>      >>
>      >> With kindest regards, William.
>      >>
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>      >
>      > How much RAM does the computer have?
>      >
>      > I would be inclined to use gparted to resize the partitions; you
>     only
>      > need, at most, 32GB for /  and you should have a separate /home
>      > partition, and, you should have (I believe) a 32GB swap partition.
>      >
>      > Is the HDD, MBR or GPT?
>      >
>      > ..
>      > Bret Busby
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>      >
>
>     What do you get, if you run
>     du -h /home
>     ?
>
>     ..
>     Bret Busby
>     Armadale
>     West Australia
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>
> 39G /home
> 7.7 GiB memory
>
> What command gives this information (HDD, MBR or GPT)?

See https://explorelinux.com/check-if-a-disk-uses-gpt-or-mbr-in-linux/
also
https://askubuntu.com/questions/387351/how-can-i-detect-whether-my-disk-is-using-gpt-or-mbr-from-a-terminal

(from the second one, so that you can understand a difference between 
the two;)
"
    If you use an MS-DOS partition table (or MBR), you can only have up 
to four primary/extended partitions.

    If you use a GUID partition table (GPT) with default settings, you 
can have up to 128 partitions. (all primary partitions)
"

follow the steps for the gdisk command.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............