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>>> On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 8:50 pm, sk <suvra kanta roy> said:
sk> [Please CC replies to the original poster -- Raju]
sk>
sk> I am Suvra kanta Roy,a 2nd year Computer sci. Engg. student of
CET,Bhubaneswar.My problem is related to a partition that I am not able to
recognise.Ihave Mandrake linux & win-XP running in my PC.But I want 2
install Red hat linux also.I've 4 partitions of my hard disk made by the
technician before I bought it.I know that th mandrake Linus takes about 5gb
of space but there are 2 patrtitions of almost the same size i.e. 5.xx
Gb.How do I know which is the redundant one,the partition table put up to
me when i try installing Red Hat linux is as follows(I have ony 1 hard
disk): sk> start end
sk> hda1 --- 26717 --- vfat --- 1 3406
sk> hda2 --- 11445 --- extended-- 3407 4865
sk> hda5 --- 5499 --- ext3 --- 3407 4107
sk> hda6 --- 243 --- swap --- 4108 4138
sk> hda7 --- 5703 --- ext3 --- 4139 4865
sk>
[snip]
easiest would be to boot into mandrake and run "mount" in a bash prompt. It
will tell you the partition mounted on /.
if it says: /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw)
then hda5 is used by mandrake so you can use hda7 for redhat. Else do the
opposite.
you can also mount the other partition, ie hda5 or hda7 (man mount). Then
check the disk space usage with the "df" command.
Bhaskar
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