adding more space to ubuntu

[bilal_jan]

hello everyone
i have two hard disks sda(80gb) and sdb(20gb) on sda9 i have ubuntu installed. i wanna add sdb(20gb) to my ubuntu OS as a partition. please tell me what steps to follow to add this (sdb) space to ubuntu.
my fdisk -l output is

abj@abj:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for abj:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfd53fd53

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1276 9111 62942670 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1276 4080 22531131 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 4081 6885 22531131 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 6886 8198 10546641 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda8 8199 8260 497983+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9 8261 9111 6835626 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 20.4 GB, 20416757760 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39560 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1bf31bf2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 19302 9728176+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 19303 39560 10209970 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 33318 39560 3146440+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

[oz]

You must have free (unallocated) space on either side of the partition that you want to expand. If you don't have any free space, you'll need to either shrink one or both of the partitions adjacent to the one you want to expand, or you'll have to do some partition restructuring/moving so that you have free space available. You can use the PartedMagic LiveCD to easily handle all those chores and more.

Don't forget that if you create any new partitions or delete any, you'll need to edit your grub configuration (grub.conf, grub.cfg, or menu.lst) file and your fstab file accordingly.

[nardone]

hello everyone
i have two hard disks sda(80gb) and sdb(20gb) on sda9 i have ubuntu installed. i wanna add sdb(20gb) to my ubuntu OS as a partition. please tell me what steps to follow to add this (sdb) space to ubuntu.
my fdisk -l output is

I would download gparted it will help you out with that

[MikeTbob]

You could also use sdb as /home if you do not already have a separate partition for that or add it as /var/log,,,,whatever you need the space for...you could just format it and then add it to /etc/fstab as a spare data storage. The choice is up to you.