Hey all,

Just starting to teach myself Linux this week and have been stuck on trying to expand my disk size. This is my first time using Linux heavly so I am mainly looking for good guides or sites to teach me.

My main issue is I am trying to install some apps to my VMWare Red Hat but when i transfer them over I run out of space. I am hugly confused as to what I need to expand the size off. Is it the Root folder/partition? I know I will need to make the /tmp bigger to take the install files (over 1 GB) but dont know how.

As this is a VMware I just went to the setting of the vmware and increased the size but this change did not reflect on the system when i bootted it back up. I have been reading and can see i need to use fdisk to change the size and partitions but cant find a clear guide as to what I need to do? There should be 50GB of space assinged to the system but I cant see where they are?

Please help!


[root/localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 53.6 GB, 53687091200 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6527 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 7 515 4088542+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 516 963 3598560 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 964 1305 2747115 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 964 1305 2747083+ 83 Linux
[root/localhost ~]# fdisk


Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 Beta (Tikanga)