Hi,
I have installed RedHat Linux Enterprise Server Edition 4 on Dell Power Edge 2900 server. While installing OS , I left 50 GB of Hard disk as free.Now after installation, I want to create new mount points on the free space.. Please any one help me .....

Regards
Vamsi

RTFM; http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...ysadmin-guide/
II. File Systems

Hint: man foo
Example man fdisk

Hello lenard,
I am not able to follow your fdisk, can you help me how to find the unused harddisk, and the ommands to create new mount points on them.

you usually* need one partition per mount point. If you want an extra , different mount point on your HD, you'll need to reduce the size of your current partition (using "resize") and then create a new partition. Rather than fdisk, I'd use "cfdisk" it's more visual and it's just as reliable.

* Yes, I know, there are exceptions.

cfdisk is also good so is parted, but if you never have done this before reading the RHEL4 manuals and the manpages helps greatly.Anoher solution is to use gparted for this, gparted is a GUI tool for doing this.

Screenshots: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

Check and make sure you have the rpm-build, parted, pyparted-devel and pyparted rpm packages installed then download the gparted-0.3.3-2.fc5.src.rpm source rpm file from Fedora Core 5 extras here;

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...xtras/5/SRPMS/

And install/build the package (as root);

rpm -ivh gparted-0.3.3-2.fc5.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -bb --define 'dist .el4' gparted.spec
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<arch>
rpm -ivh gparted-0.3.3-2.el4.<arch>.rpm

It is up to you to meet the build requirements if any. Watch the output from the rpmbuild command to know exactly where the binary rpm package is (the <arch> parts).

And please read the RHEL-4 manuals, download them and have them hardy for reviewing, they actually answer the vast majority of questions asked.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/

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