[NTLUG:Discuss] partition question

m m llliiilll at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 16 11:50:24 CST 2004


When I tried install the RH 9.0  on old DELL computer. the box has 4 scsi 
hard drive. When I try to partition the drive use Diskdurik, I always get 
free on the file system on one of the partition (the file system can not be 
assigned). It seems to me that I can not use that part of partition.
how do I fixed the problem (use all available spaces, no free space 
partition)?
see table below, /dev/sdb2 got no file system.  (not exactly show on the 
time I install, but similar)

   Device  Boot Start   End   Blocks   Id  System  Mounted on
/dev/sda1  *       1     39   157216+   6   Linux   /
/dev/sdb1          1    332   157248   83    swap
/dev/sdb2        333    620   1161216   5    free
/dev/sdc           1    459   512032+  83   Linux   /home
/dev/sdd           1    523   258016+  83   Linux   /misc

Please note: the device name may not correct but similar to the my problem. 
same as values of end, blocks.

my point is I can not get the /dev/sdb2 to set up as Linux systems.
if I try to do it, the swap partition will goes to /dev/sda1, and sda has 2 
partitions.

   Device  Boot Start   End   Blocks   Id  System  Mounted on
/dev/sda1  *       1     39   157216+   6   Linux   /
/dev/sda2        294    332   157248   83    swap
/dev/sdb           1    620   1161216   5   Linux   /*** (don't remember)
/dev/sdc           1    459   512032+  83   Linux   /home
/dev/sdd           1    523   258016+  83   Linux   /misc

Any ideas, thanks

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