Formating free space: WinXP pro and RH9 dualboot with free space on 3rd drive
I am currently running a dual boot system of Windows XP Pro on 1st drive, RedHat 9 on a 2nd drive and a 3rd drive set as a storage device. My problem is the 3rd drive is a 200G drive and my MOBO doesn't support it the entire drive. It only sees about 137G, which I have formatted as FAT32. :) I want to use the remaining 60G or so as part of my Linux system so that it would expand my current 40G on drive 2 to include the additional 60G.
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Thanks for the help. |
you will need to use 'fdisk /dev/hdc ' create a linux (ext2/ext3) partition,
primary partition, number 2. Surely it will ask how you want it partitioned, usually in cylinder format, tell it start: 16710 and end will be a default number, probably somehwre around the 24321 or 24320 area. then format the unused space with 'mke2fs' from Linux. like so: /sbin/mke2fs /dev/hdc2 cause you told linux to create a primary partition with the partiton number being 2. this should also appear as 83/82 in the partition ID area depending on if its Linux ext2/3 or Linux swap. |
It worked. Thanks. Here is how it read:
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So how will this space be used now? Will it be part of the "general drive" or is it allocated to a specific file? And if so how do I access it? |
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