On Thursday 08 February 2007 21:45, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:34:21 -0800 > > "Michael Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, list -- > > > > > > # df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda3 20G 12G 7.5G 61% / > > udev 236M 2.7M 233M 2% /dev > > shm 236M 0 236M 0% /dev/shm > > /dev/hda5 14G 13G 1.3G 91% /home/col/dump > > /dev/hda6 14G 12G 2.0G 86% /home/col/music > > so here the sizes added up are ~48.5 gigs, right? and here... > > > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes > > we can see the 80 gig drive recognized as such. > > > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders > > and you have 155,061 cylinders on the disk, but > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 * 1 497 250456+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hda2 498 2482 1000440 82 Linux swap / > > Solaris /dev/hda3 2483 44103 20976984 83 Linux > > /dev/hda4 44104 99582 27961416 5 Extended > > /dev/hda5 44104 71843 13980928+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hda6 71844 99582 13980424+ 83 Linux > > you only fill to cylinder 99,582. So 99,582 of 155,061 leaves us > only about 64% of the drive used, and your 30 'missing' gigs simply not > partitioned off. Unfortunately, since you haven't any more primary > partitions, you have space after /dev/hda4 and no way to use it. > Hopefully you know something about nondestructive partition resizing. > > good luck!
Or, boot off a LiveCD, tar the last partition contents somewhere off disk, optionally you could delete the files/directories (use shred if you wish), then use fdisk to delete the last partition, create a new extended partition and the desired number and sizes of logical partitions, reboot with the LiveCD, create a new fs type on each of your new partitions and untar back your old partition. There's a catch. Your first new logical partition will need to be at least as large as the data you had in your old partition. If you want to move some of the directories & mount points into a new different partition, this would be the time to do it. Instead of tar-ring the complete partition, just tar separately the relevant directories. I'm sure there must be some LVM, EVM type of trick that you could use to achieve the above, but I have always used this, aheam, conventional method to do it. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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