How can I use free space

11-16-2008	#1 (permalink)
sjainuni Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 2	How can I use free space Hi, I have fedora 7. I have two XP and fedora on my PC. I deleted a 10GB logical partition from XP. Now I want to use it in Linux. Please help me how to create a new partition and use it in Fedora. When I use fdisk -l I got this Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1276 2550 10241437+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 2551 9729 57665317+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 6376 7650 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda6 7651 9728 16691503+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda7 2551 2614 514017 83 Linux /dev/sda8 2615 3889 10241406 83 Linux /dev/sda9 3890 4969 8675068+ 83 Linux /dev/sda10 4970 5100 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris I think /dev/sda3 is my free space. Now I want to use it as /work file system. kindly let me know How can I do it. Thanks

11-16-2008

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rcgreen

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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1276 2550 10241437+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 2551 9729 57665317+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6376 7650 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 7651 9728 16691503+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 2551 2614 514017 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 2615 3889 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 3890 4969 8675068+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 4970 5100 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris

You have free space starting with cyl 5101 and ending at
6375. /dev/sda3 is an extended partition that contains
the logical partitions /dev/sda5 through /dev/sda10
You can create another logical partition from 5101 to 6375

11-16-2008	#3 (permalink)
sjainuni Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 2	How can I create partition Hi, Thank you for your reply, I am unable to understand how can I determine that I can create partition starting from 5101 to 6375. I have 10GB free disk space. Kindly let me know the appropriate commands to create partition, format partition and access that partition. Is it possible to make a partition that I can access both from Windows and Fedora? Thanks

11-17-2008	#4 (permalink)
rcgreen Linux Engineer Join Date: May 2006 Location: the hills Posts: 767	You should probably use something like gparted, because it is graphical and will probably show you exactly how to create a partition in that unused space. Afterward, you can format it to whatever type of partition you want. If you want it accessible both Windows and Linux, you could make it FAT32 or NTFS. You could boot Windows and format it from there.

11-17-2008	#5 (permalink)
dxqcanada Linux User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 259	This is easier to look at: Code: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1* 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1276 2550 10241437+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 2551 9729 57665317+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda7 2551 2614 514017 83 Linux /dev/sda8 2615 3889 10241406 83 Linux /dev/sda9 3890 4969 8675068+ 83 Linux /dev/sda10 4970 5100 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris 5101 6375 /dev/sda5 6376 7650 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda6 7651 9728 16691503+ 7 HPFS/NTFS This puts the partitions in order by their starting and end blocks. As rcgreen stated ... the empty space on your drive resides between block 5101 and 6375. You can use a partitioning tool such as fdisk or parted (or a GUI one like gparted) to create a logical partition in that space. As rcgreen stated ... you can format this partion as a FAT32 so both OS's can read/write to it ... or you can just format it for Linux (eg. ext3). Then you can add it to your /etc/fstab to be mounted. __________________ Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill ... then the Unix-Gods created "man" ...