Re: hda question
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:24:22PM -0800 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have reinstalled RH 7.2 a few of times, clean install each time, on a machine and it appears that each time I have done that it has created a new hda. Would this be correct? Is a hda a partition? No. hda is your primary hard disk. Partitions are hda1, hda2, etc. I was recently told my program is on hda6 and it is out of space. (This shouldn't be the case as the program doesn't take up much space) From the command line how can I tell how many hda's I have? $ df will list your filesystems and available space. If these are just blank partitions can I eliminate the other hda's and make one big one from the command line? You can use parted to resize your partition. Check out the docs at http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html. Note that you will need a boot disk, since parted does not work on mounted partitions. -- Andrew Pasquale -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: hda question
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is a hda a partition? No, /dev/hda is the first drive on the first IDE controller. /dev/hda[1..N] designates each partition on the /dev/hda device. I was recently told my program is on hda6 and it is out of space. (This shouldn't be the case as the program doesn't take up much space) df -h will show your mounted partitions, and how much free space is on each. If these are just blank partitions can I eliminate the other hda's and make one big one from the command line? You can't really merge partitions. Well, you *can*, but it isn't trivial, and will usually hose your data. Your best bet is to backup your data, reinstall using the custom partitioning option, and create the entire drive as the root partition (with a 20GB /boot, if you aren't using grub). -- Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: hda question
Ok, I ran df -h and got: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 372M 109M 244M 31% / /dev/hda1 45M 11M 32M 24% /boot /dev/hda3 4.7G 33M 4.4G 1% /home none 61M 0 61M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda2 13G 1.1G 11G 9% /usr /dev/hda6 251M 235M 3.6M 99% /var Does this look normal? I did not set this up with partitions and so now I am wondering if I did something wrong on the install. This was installed directly from RH 7.2 disks. Shouldn't there just be hda1 only? Mark On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 01:06 PM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is a hda a partition? No, /dev/hda is the first drive on the first IDE controller. /dev/hda[1..N] designates each partition on the /dev/hda device. I was recently told my program is on hda6 and it is out of space. (This shouldn't be the case as the program doesn't take up much space) df -h will show your mounted partitions, and how much free space is on each. If these are just blank partitions can I eliminate the other hda's and make one big one from the command line? You can't really merge partitions. Well, you *can*, but it isn't trivial, and will usually hose your data. Your best bet is to backup your data, reinstall using the custom partitioning option, and create the entire drive as the root partition (with a 20GB /boot, if you aren't using grub). -- Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: hda question
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/hda6 251M 235M 3.6M 99% /var Your /var partition is almost full. You might need to clean it out. installed directly from RH 7.2 disks. Shouldn't there just be hda1 only? Not unless you did a custom install. Read the docs for the installation you chose (probably workstation). -- Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
