Partitions

[Matt W.]

When I Installed RedHat 6.0 I setup 2 partioions Native(/) and swap. All i can see is the native drive in the file manager.
How can I make the swap partition visible?
How can i add a new native partition so i can begin work with LFS? :rolleyes:

[hugs_to_tux]

hey u musthave forgotten to change the partition id i guess for the swap i guess its 83 or 84 and moreover the swap partition alsoshud have been made a proimary one.
i guess this cud only be the problem.
use fdisk view the table.

[Matt W.]

how do i change to 84 or 83??? and create a new partition

[hugs_to_tux]

use fidisk help "m" to get all the options andchange the partition idfor the partitions u have created.
that wud solve the problem
and then u must write the
partition table to disk

[Matt W.]

fdisk wont work!! no command

[bdg1983]

I can't see my swap partition in the file manager either. You not supposed to.

Just use 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' to see if the swap partition is there and the correct type of 82 and free' to see if it's active.

[Matt W.]

I DONT HAvE FDISK

[hugs_to_tux]

surprising that u dont have fdisk
u can even use diskdruid
btw if nothing works then while instaling again do change the partition ids using fdisk or diskdruid and write the partition table to disk

[bdg1983]

Originally posted by Matt W.:
<STRONG>I DONT HAVE FDISK</STRONG>

Have you tried as root?

I doubt a normal user would be able to access and use fdisk.