[ale] unallocated space

[Zyman, Andy]

Great! thank you so much. I'll take a look on this as soon as i get home.
Thank You Joseph.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph A. Knapka [mailto:jknapka at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:44 PM
> To: Zyman, Andy
> Cc: 'ale at ale.org'
> Subject: Re: [ale] unallocated space
> 
> 
> "Zyman, Andy" wrote:
> > 
> > Joseph,
> > thank You for input.
> > But, and you are right here, df returns space in 
> "filesystem". But i don't
> > have a fs there. it's unallocated "raw" space. I'm thinking 
> maybe mkfs will
> > help me? But it creates fs on partition and this not (?) a 
> partition....
> 
> Ah, right, I should have read your message more thoroughly.
> I think the only way you will get this information is from
> a partitioning tool. If you run "fdisk /dev/hd?" (where ? is
> the drive number), and do "p" to tell it to print the
> partition table, it will tell you what units the partition
> number are expressed in ("Cylinders of 512 * 8192 bytes" or
> something like that). You can then use the total available
> space in those units and a little multiplication to find
> the available space in bytes. Or you could just create
> a filesystem on the empty space (after making a partition
> there, of course) and run df.
> 
> As for adding space to an existing partition, I guess there
> are partitioning tools that will do that, but you might
> have better luck with the "md" (multidevice) driver - it
> lets you combine several partitions into a single
> logical one, without having to mess with the physical
> partitions.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Joe
>  
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Joseph A. Knapka [mailto:jknapka at earthlink.net]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:29 PM
> > > To: Zyman, Andy
> > > Cc: 'ale at ale.org'
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] unallocated space
> > >
> > >
> > > "Zyman, Andy" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > > very simple question for you:
> > > > how can i see the amount of unallocated space under Linux?
> > >
> > > From a shell, run
> > > df
> > > ("disk free") to see the amount of free space on all filesystems.
> > >
> > > -- Joe
> > >
> > > > problem:
> > > > I have hd for 40 gb. I have Nt and rh73 installed. I need
> > > more space in
> > > > /home to install Oracle9i. I found "parted". Which might (
> > > i don't know yet
> > > > ) add or expand the partition.
> > > > the problem is that it asks not for how much space i want
> > > to add but for
> > > > starting/ending sectors/segments ( don't remember right now ).
> > > > so now i need to find out where the unused space is. And i
> > > just don't know
> > > > how to do this.
> > > > Another problem - it ( parted ) asks not for mb i want to
> > > add but for ( i
> > > > think ) segments, so i have to know where the space is...
> > > > any help?
> > > >
> > > > P.S. on top of this i was trying to find where is the disk
> > > druid ( i liked
> > > > it gui interface, was very convenient for me ), but failed...
> > > > Please advice.
> > > >
> > > > Thank You
> > > >  Andy
> > > >
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