On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:24:22PM -0800 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have reinstalled RH 7.2 a few of times, clean install each time, on > a machine and it appears that each time I have done that it has created > a new hda. Would this be correct? > Is a hda a partition?
No. hda is your primary hard disk. Partitions are hda1, hda2, etc. > I was recently told my program is on hda6 and it is out of space. (This > shouldn't be the case as the program doesn't take up much space) > From the command line how can I tell how many hda's I have? $ df will list your filesystems and available space. > If these are just blank partitions can I eliminate the other hda's and > make one big one from the command line? > You can use parted to resize your partition. Check out the docs at http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html. Note that you will need a boot disk, since parted does not work on mounted partitions. -- Andrew Pasquale -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
