disk partition problem

maheshadadrsh · 12-21-2007, 10:18 AM

hi guys , i use a laptop with 60 GB hard drive , i was using Fed 7
now , when i try to redo the partition for fedora 8 , the space except for boot , / , home , temp , everything else disappears , i.e almost 55GB of space.

can someone please tell me how to partition to get a two 25 GB spaces for the media, data etc and the rest for a nice boot and what not ! mem is 512 so swap ?? ( 1GB ?? )

please show me how to get a nice partition , i am tryin hard but i have to do all over again

Duck2006 · 12-21-2007, 11:07 AM

From the terminal type

fdisk -l

and post the output.

joshfoulk · 12-21-2007, 07:59 PM

You might try Gparted. It has a boot disk. Works nicely.

JF