Andy Eager wrote:
> >Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 789 cylinders
> >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >
> >   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> >/dev/hda1   *         1       204   1638598+   b  Win95 FAT32
> >/dev/hda2           205       217    104422+  82  Linux swap
> >/dev/hda3           218       789   4594590    5  Extended
> >/dev/hda5   *       218       224     56196   83  Linux
> >
> Space here between 225 and 352

128 blocks, or approximately 1004 megabytes.

 
> >
> >/dev/hda6           353       480   1028128+  83  Linux
> >/dev/hda7           481       633   1228941   83  Linux
> >
> Space here as well between 634 and 789

166 blocks, or approximately 1302 megabytes.

There's a problem here... Both of these spaces are in the extended
partition, which already contains 3 logical partitions. At most you can
only have 4 logical partitions in an extended partition, so will only be
able to make one partition from them.

That means you've got precious disk space that's going to be wasted --
at least 1004 megabytes of it.

If you can manage it, you'd be better off making a backup,
repartitioning and reinstalling. And this time, put your partitions
end-to-end so any left over space is contiguous instead of fragmented
like it is currently.

Matthew
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