Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

2006-02-27 Thread Daniel B.
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-02-23 08:49:04, schrieb Mitchell Laks: Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I partitioned my 120GB hard drive. fdisk /dev/hda Why not use cfdisk? Does cfdisk give as much control over partitioning (e.g., which partition numbers to use and where to place part

Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

2006-02-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-02-23 08:49:04, schrieb Mitchell Laks: > Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I partitioned my 120GB hard drive. > fdisk /dev/hda Why not use cfdisk? Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with t

Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

2006-02-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Mitchell Laks wrote: Dear Mike, Thank you very much for your extraordinarily clear explanation of what was going on and plan for proceeding. I read it and this is what I did. You are welcome. [snip] 1. I Backed up all my /home data via rsync to another machine. Good! [snip] Because yo

Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

2006-02-23 Thread Mitchell Laks
Dear Mike, Thank you very much for your extraordinarily clear explanation of what was going on and plan for proceeding. I read it and this is what I did. I used the fact that my partitions were /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda2 / /dev/hda3 /home and all i had on the extended partition was the swap

Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

2006-02-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Mitchell Laks wrote: 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

Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

2006-02-23 Thread Laurent CARON
Mitchell Laks a écrit : 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 what is the output of fdisk -l ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

2006-02-23 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Thursday 23 February 2006 10:19, Laurent CARON wrote: > Mitchell Laks a יcrit : > > 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 > > w

How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

2006-02-23 Thread Mitchell Laks
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 FilesystemSize Used Avail Use%