how to make partiton in linux
 

i had 2 parititons ,one for linux,other for windows,
in linux partiton i had fedora 7,and some free space is availabe in linux ,can i make that free space as partition,when i am trying to create partiton it is saying no enough space for partitions,but free space available is 10GB.for feodra 7 i had allocated 20 GB

so how can i make partition can u help me

What does your partition table look like?

How did you try it? What tools did you use? Gparted?

You can post the output for:

Hi saritha,

Don't get confused between free space in a partision and unpartitionned space.

To be sure that you still have some unpartittioned space you can do the following:
then press p

Best regards,

thanks for ur reply

[root@mallika ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 255 2048256 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 256 4677 35519715 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 4678 4690 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 4691 9729 40475767+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda5 256 1785 12289693+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 1786 3060 10241406 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 3061 4677 12988521 b W95 FAT32

so i tired using LVM,and i made 2 partition for linux

[root@mallika ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
27G 4.5G 21G 18% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02
10G 170M 9.3G 2% /LFS
/dev/sda3 99M 20M 75M 21% /boot
tmpfs 244M 0 244M 0% /dev/shm


is this correct and my partition table is

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 255 2048256 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 256 4677 35519715 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 4678 4690 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 4691 9729 40475767+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda5 256 1785 12289693+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 1786 3060 10241406 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 3061 4677 12988521 b W95 FAT32