On Monday 10 September 2007 23:15, Bob S wrote: > cfdisk will do it !! Thanks so much ! All the remaining 167GB of free > space. > > I had never heard of cfdisk and was afraid of what I would do so I studied > the man page over and over and then tried it. It will work. (Wonder why > Yast partitioner won't?) What it will do is create sda10 a logical > partition of 167GB of all remaining free space which I am assuming will > push the extended partion out to the end of the disk. I didn't do it > because I am afraid to do it on my running system ( a concern?) and I > didn't want a partition of that huge size, and I don't see (yet) a way to > create several smaller partitions. Can that be done in cfdisk?
The 'cfdisk' is dependable program and easy to use, but that's not all, there is 'sfdisk' too :-) Looks like 'fdisk', but it is better, than 'parted'. > I suppose I > could go to the yast partitioner and resize it. but that may make the > extended partition shrink. I dunno yet. But I am very happy that I have > that space back for when I go to install 10.3. Have you tried to add partition using YaST? > Thanks again guys and all ideas welcome on dividing up that 167GB before I > commit. > > Bob S -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
