new partition creation
Hi,
I'm still learning all this and in need of some assistance. I have built a system with the partitions below and now been asked to create another 300GB partition. I have used command fdisk and managed to create /dev/sda4 from /dev/sda5. Now sure where to go from here to get this ready? Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 65284 524289307+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 65285 78338 104856255 83 Linux /dev/sda4 78339 163944 687630195 5 Extended /dev/sda5 78339 163944 687630163+ 8e Linux LVM |
sda4 is an extended partition---it acts as a "wrapper" for any "logical" partitions that you add. It appears that you created sda5 inside of sda4---and that you used all the space available. sda 5 is ~690 GB.
If you need 300GB, then use fdisk to delete sda5 and then create a new partition of 300GB. Beyond that, you'll need to tell us what you want to do---eg i assume you'll want to create a file system and then mount it somewhere. Tell as much as you can about the context of all this, and we can give better help. |
/dev/sda5 is a partition containing a LVM. That means it is not clear if all the space is used, you have to use the LVM tool to have a look at it and maybe resize/create logical volumes.
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Well, 8e is the correct LVM (actually pv) partition type, but whether you can make a different type and then pvcreate it I don't know.
I always use the recommended partition types for whatever partition types I want. http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partition...n_types-1.html You certainly do have to put an actual fs eg ext3 on top though. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ |
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