Hi. I wan't to make a new partition from unalocated space on my disk. I've slack10 running and I don't wan't to mess smth. What program to deal with it, and do it safe? cfdisk, fdisk (what's the diff.?)

tnx

Fdisk is rather cryptic I would say use cfidsk /dev/hd? then when it opens up use the down arrow key to select the unpartitioned space and choose new from the selections with the right/left arrow keys at the bottom for the screen. Follow the dialogs and depending on how the drive is already partitioned you want either a primary or extended partition type (the output of fdisk -l would be helpful if you cannot figure it out on your own) being type 83. Then you may have to reboot to re-read the partition when you save the new configuration to the disk cfdisk will tell you if you need too I always do anyway just to be sure and format the partition with your desired file system.

hey where can we find out this cfidsk utility
i am using fedora 2 but i do not have this utility

is it better than fdisk ,i have faced a lot of problems with fdisk

regards

gaurav

One can also try GNU Parted. Just you do
man parted

first and familiarise yourself

Isn't cfidsk only for Slack? I wonder because I don't see any download page from google. No project under SF.net and all searches on google are from Slack related questions.

Thank you HappyT. Now I know that to do

its actually called cfdisk and its shiped with most all distros.
Its way easier than fdisk and it lets you resize from the command line but for a newbie i'd stick with gnu parted

hi there
cfdisk utility is not there in redhat or fedora, i think this was specified in this thread in the earlier post

regards
gaurav

Just do a search for cfdisk at RPM Search the actual package is called cfdisk-glibc-0.8g-1.i386.rpm

HTH
Baldrick