Get and merge free space
 

Hello,

There are two linux distro on my home pc 1.fedora-11 2.rhel5. There are some free space in fedora 11 i.e. around 5.0 gb; so i wish to get that free space from there and merge into rhel 5's free space. How do i do it ? After searching on net, i am posting the question here please.

/dev/hda6 is Fedora 11 partition.
/dev/hda8 is RHEL 5 partition.

Regards
Girish Sharma

Boot your computer with a gparted livecd (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php) and try to resize the partitions to your liking. But first, back up everything of value to you!

I don't think that it will be possible as the two partitions are not adjacent. So you will have to first delete hda3 to do something like that.

It is possible to resize and move partitions around using gparted however, if your Fedora 11 uses LVM then it is a lot more complicated. It would help to see exactly how the drive is partitioned i.e. the output from the fdisk command i.e.
fdisk -l /dev/hda (that is a small L and you must be root)

http://equivocation.org/node/103

First of i would like to thank you very much for your reply and valuable guide.

I downloaded gparted iso file, burnt cd and booted pc from that cd. I got options there to resize the partitions, but unfortunately in the ignorance i deleted LVM2 partitions. Now when i reboot the pc it goes to grub> prompt.

I thought that probably some problem has been occured with grub, so i inserted the RHEL5's first cd and "linux rescue" ... i got command prompt after chroot /sysimage/mnt (i am just remembering what exactly i gave there). Now, when i says grub-install /dev/hda then it is saying there is no device.

It is my home pc, so i just use for learning, testing and meanwhile for damage too...!

Kindly guide me how to recover the LVM and/or grub installation.

Best regards
Girish Sharma