Hi ! I think I did hit the 4 partition limit .
The result of my fdisk -l /dev/hda is as ffs:- Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7297 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 574 4610623+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 575 1097 4200997+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1098 1228 1052257+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 1229 1835 4875727+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Thank you all for your help . bj -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ray Olszewski Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:18 PM To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to add a new partition to an existing Red HAT 8 At 10:56 AM 2/20/2005 -0500, Jim Nelson wrote: >Ray Olszewski wrote: > >>But you only mention 3 partitions above, and I don't know if that is a >>reporting error on your part or an indication of some other problem. So >>the first thing you should do is check your partition table as I did >>above (run fdisk and use its p command). > >If he ran with the RH defaults, then it made a 100MB /boot partition, a >swap partition, and then the / partition. That'll fill the partition >table right up on a dual-boot system. > >Jim That certainly makes sense ... but in his message he did include a list of partitions, and it only had 3 entries (only one linux partition, so no /boot partition, presumably). If he just missed the fourth one ... he didn't say *how* he checked the partition list ... the procedure I described will find it for him, and he may have something of a mess on his hands (depending on the geometry of the drive as the BIOS sees it). If he did not miss it, and he really has only 3 partitions, then he has a different problem and needs different help. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
