Hi, Pls tell me what you used to see the remaining space. Linux has to show all the partitions.
Try the following: #fdisk /dev/hda-->if ur harddisk is IDE and this is the 1st disk. Command (m for help):----> In the prompt give p and will print the partions. If it doesn't show here, there can be some problem with those partitions. Even if the partition is DOS formatted linux must show it up. With the above procedure if u can see the dos partition and if u dont want it, delete the partition and recreate the partirion and mount that to different mount point using mount command. Before that you must format the created partition with the file system of ur choice(ext2,minix etc). I doubt whether u can add this to root. MAy be you can use ur 8.5GB with a diff mount point(/home,/usr etc). Warm regs, sathish.j On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Mudit wrote: > Dear friends, I was having a P-III machine with 20 GB harddisk having two partitions >of 10 GB each. I wanted to install PCQuest Linux on it. So i repartitioned the hard >disk into two partitions of 7 GB and 13 GB using FIPS. Then i removed the 13 GB >partition and installed Linux with the following memory assignments: root - 4 GB, >swap - 256 MB. Specifically I did not use the option of "Use remaining space for root >partition". > > The linux is working perfectly fine. However, now when i try to restore the >remaining 8.5 GB (20 - 7 - 4.5) of my hard disk, the system fails. It says that the >extended DOS partition exists but is not showing it. > > Is this hard disk space lost? Is there any way i can recover it without uninstalling >Linux? Pl. help. > > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com > > Buy Music, Video, CD-ROM, Audio-Books and Music Accessories from >http://www.planetm.co.in > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
