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anandpa

01-22-2002, 10:37 AM

Hi,
I have 40 GB harddisk. I installed linux
on 25 GB partition. Now i want to get
the rest of 15 GB also into linux, how
do i do this? From the file manager etc
i don't see the 15GB disk.
also df -k does't show the other 15GB disk.
Thanks, http://discussions.linuxplanet.com/confused.gif
Anand

pinolino

01-30-2002, 05:40 AM

You can do that with the fdisk command.
But you must be very careful!
I hope you want read the fdisk man page and fstab man page before use it!
Another useful is to read the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard from http://www.pathname.com

furrycat

01-30-2002, 09:11 PM

You don't even need to fdisk it. If you know its partition number (eg /dev/hda5) you can just run "mke2fs /dev/hda5" and bingo there's your filesystem.