I have a disk that fdisk lists as follows: --------------------------------------------------------- Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 63 506016 83 Linux /dev/hda2 64 4865 38572065 5 Extended /dev/hda5 64 94 248976 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 2424 4865 19615333+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 95 1200 8883913+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 1201 2423 9823716 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order Command (m for help): q ----------------------------------------------------------- The mount is: # mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on / type ext2 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 on /home type ext2 (rw) none on /mnt/cdrom type supermount (ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1) none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 on /usr type ext2 (rw) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on /var type ext2 (rw) ----------------------------------------------------------- Devices are linked as: #ls -l /dev/hda* lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 32 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda1 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda2 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda5 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda6 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda7 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda8 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 # ----------------------------------------------------------- The fstab is: # cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,sync,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 ---------------------------------------------------------- I am running out of disk space and wonder what's up with /dev/hda2. Is is free for me to mount say a var2 on? Or? And how would I do that? TIA, BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
