Re: removing EISA partition

2009-03-11 Thread Alessandro Brezzi
Hi Hiisi, use parted to see the exact layout of your HD HTH 2009/3/11 Hiisi > Dear fedora-list members! > On my girlfriend's laptop (Samsung R40) running Fedora 9 is disk shortage > problem. It had 60 Gb hard drive when she brought it a few years ago with > Windows XP already installed. She us

Re: removing EISA partition

2009-03-11 Thread Hiisi
Hi Hiisi, use parted to see the exact layout of your HD HTH 2009/3/11 Hiisi > Dear fedora-list members! > On my girlfriend's laptop (Samsung R40) running Fedora 9 is disk shortage > problem. It had 60 Gb hard drive when she brought it a few years ago with > Windows XP already installed. She use

Re: removing EISA partition

2009-03-12 Thread Aldo Foot
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Hiisi wrote: >> Hi Hiisi, >> use parted to see the exact layout of your HD >> >> HTH >> >> 2009/3/11 Hiisi >> > Dear fedora-list members! >> > On my girlfriend's laptop (Samsung R40) running Fedora 9 is disk >> shortage >> > problem. It had 60 Gb hard drive when

Re: removing EISA partition (SOLVED

2009-03-12 Thread Hiisi
That used spaced was reserved for root by mkfs when the partition was created. The mkfs command displays a message to that effect. When you create a partition mkfs says something like (numbers for example only): "66970 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user" You can change the reserved block