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Folks,

I did a workstation install of Red Hat 7.1 using automatic partitioning on
a 2 HD Pentium system (4GB and 3GB respectively, single OS only).
The /boot and / (root) partitions were created on hard drive 1 and /swap
was created on hard drive 2. The install was successful, *but* (excepting
the swap space) hard drive 2 was unallocated by the automatic partitioning
done by Disk Druid.  (detail at end)

Egad! How do I partition, format and mount this unused space without
clobbering my sucessful install? I am already running out of space...

Specifically:

Q1. How do I partition, format and mount the 3 GB of wasted space on hard
drive 2 without wiping my successful installation and subsequent
configuration and installs?

Q2. Can I use Disk Druid for the partitioning and formatting, or is Disk
Druid just an installation tool? Are there more suitable tools? Note the man
page for cfdisk seems to say that it it restricted to partitioning and
formatting a single hard drive. The man page for fdisk warns against using
fdisk at all!!!

BTW, Red Hat 7.1 has worked like a champ so far. I would very much
appreciate any suggestions.  I will post/repost anything useful that I find
out with attributions to the rsponsible guru(s) :-)

                        Thanks in advance...

Detail
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Mounts are:

/ (root)                /dev/hda5       ext2    3999 MB
/boot           /dev/hda1       ext2    53 MB
/swap           (on 2nd HD)     swap    197 MB
/proc                           proc
/dev/pts                                devpts
/misc                           autofs

Hardware:

233 MHz Pentium MMX w/64 MB memory, Diamond Stealth video card, ESS Allegro
sound card, modem, network NIC (Linksys LNE100TX), a 4 GB IDE disk
(HD 1) and a 3 GB IDE disk (HD 2). CD-Rom & floppy. Eveything recognized
and configured, first try!

My newsserver doesn't provide the col.admin group.
So I'll reply to the col.setup group.

Besides that, DON'T crosspost to so many groups.

Quote:> Egad! How do I partition, format and mount this unused space without
> clobbering my sucessful install? I am already running out of space...

Then you parttioned poorly.
You should have read the partitioning HOWTO

Quote:> Specifically:

> Q1. How do I partition, format and mount the 3 GB of wasted space on hard
> drive 2 without wiping my successful installation and subsequent
> configuration and installs?

Use a partitioning tool, and leave the already existing partitions alone.

Quote:> Q2. Can I use Disk Druid for the partitioning and formatting, or is Disk
> Druid just an installation tool?

It's installation time only IIRC.

Quote:> Are there more suitable tools? Note the man
> page for cfdisk seems to say that it it restricted to partitioning and
> formatting a single hard drive.

Now that's a heavy restriction :-)
What's your problem with it?
It's restricted to partition one harddisk per run.
So try `cfdisk /dev/hda` first
Then try `cfdisk /dev/hdb` (or hdc/hdd/hde.....)

Quote:>  The man page for fdisk warns against using
> fdisk at all!!!

Use it if you know how to use it.
I use it all the time, without problems. It doesn't restrict you very much
though,
so you can easily create an incorrect partitiontable.

Eric

Eric,
    Thanks for the response.  Experience is everything, as
it is usually the unmentioned  assumptions that kill you.
 I will indeed try out what you suggest. ~jim

Quote:> My newsserver doesn't provide the col.admin group.
> So I'll reply to the col.setup group.

> Besides that, DON'T crosspost to so many groups.

> > Egad! How do I partition, format and mount this unused space without
> > clobbering my sucessful install? I am already running out of space...

> Then you parttioned poorly.
> You should have read the partitioning HOWTO

> > Specifically:

> > Q1. How do I partition, format and mount the 3 GB of wasted space on
hard
> > drive 2 without wiping my successful installation and subsequent
> > configuration and installs?

> Use a partitioning tool, and leave the already existing partitions alone.

> > Q2. Can I use Disk Druid for the partitioning and formatting, or is Disk
> > Druid just an installation tool?

> It's installation time only IIRC.

> > Are there more suitable tools? Note the man
> > page for cfdisk seems to say that it it restricted to partitioning and
> > formatting a single hard drive.

> Now that's a heavy restriction :-)
> What's your problem with it?
> It's restricted to partition one harddisk per run.
> So try `cfdisk /dev/hda` first
> Then try `cfdisk /dev/hdb` (or hdc/hdd/hde.....)

> >  The man page for fdisk warns against using
> > fdisk at all!!!

> Use it if you know how to use it.
> I use it all the time, without problems. It doesn't restrict you very much
> though,
> so you can easily create an incorrect partitiontable.

> Eric