Help, how can I create new partition on my HDD (OS Fedora 11) ?
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Help, how can I create new partition on my HDD (OS Fedora 11) ?
I would like to create a new partition to install Solaris OS.
I need help please. My current partition table is below:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 27 204088+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 28 20667 156038400 8e Linux LVM
/etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Tue Oct 6 11:27:11 2009
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info
#
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
UUID=a6f88ed6-70f1-4c51-b99a-408a78a25a7d /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
[root@woodquest-consult Demmy]# mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/Demmy/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=Demmy)
I would like to create a new partition to install Solaris OS.
I need help please. My current partition table is below:
Well, what you've posted isn't going to help much. It shows what you've GOT defined, not if you've got any free space left to define anything else. Do you??
Also, what version/distro of Linux are you using? How much free space is on the drive? When you're installing Solaris, you can set it up to use any free disk space that's out there. If you searched on here or on Google, there's lots of info on how to do it:
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