[NTLUG:Discuss] / filling up, again.

[terry]

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   As you probably already know, current BIOS limitations are such that 
we can really only have 4 partitions.  In order to work around this 
limitation, we make the 4th partition what we call an "extended" 
partition that will contain all the other pseudo partitions within that 
4th partition.  We call these pseudo partitions "logical" partitions. 
That'll give us  up to a total of sixteen as logical partitions inside 
the extended one [partition 4].   (Pseudo is not a good term, just used 
it for sake of argument.)

If you look at
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
&
# fdisk -l /dev/hdc
you'll probably see that 4th partition listed there.  And if you look at
the size of it in comparison to the ones numbered 5 and above you'll
realize that it's the culmination of those higher numbered "logical"
partitions.  And then if you look at the start and end of partition 4,
you'll also see that it covers the space occupied by logical partitions
5 and above.


(Assuming you've used all your IDE ports),  What I would do, is make 
appropriate partitions on a larger drive and replace the 6gig with it 
and move stuff to it as needed.

To do that, you'd have to take out the 40 gig., put in the new drive, 
boot to a boot disk with some necessary utilities, like Toms rbt or 
Linuxcare bootable CD, make the necessary partitions, format them as 
needed, copy the stuff from your 6 gig. drive to the new one, edit 
/etc/fstab as/if needed, remove the 6 gig., move the new drive to it's 
proper position, put the 40 gig back in and finish shuffling things to 
where they need to be and that should do it.

See: http://sxs.iqchoice.com/housekeeping/newones.html

FYI:  I've taken to leaving an unpartitioned portion of one of my drives 
for expansion purposes.

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