I have this 36 GB harddisk which houses the root partition along with a 28 GB partion for the rest of the data. The thing I wish to do is that partition this 28 GB into two partions. I have never partitioned the root disk. I just wanted to know whether is it possible to do when the disk is online... (1 Reply)
I have search the archives with no luck. Looking for help with my specific system.
I have an SUN ULTRA 2 with dual 4.3GB HD's. I installed Solaris 8 with default settings (auto configure)and 2nd drive was partioned /export/home/extra as the only mount(4.3 G's).
I then reinstalled the OS... (7 Replies)
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I have a sun server. Recently I have attached a new 80 GB disk. I would like to install the Solaris OS on this disk.
Now I would be installing some database on this disk.
I have decided to allocate a slice of 20GB or DB2 and one more slice of 20GB for Sybase.
The / partition would... (4 Replies)
Hi theres
I am quite new to solaris, I have 40GB HDD in which I have created only 10 GB partition & installed solaris 10. Now I want to add another 10GB from remaining 30GB space. I tried this with format utility but I get stuck after I create fdsik partition. After creating this I cant... (1 Reply)
Hi, group
Just wondering suppose you have linux already installed & now you get a new disk so that your computer has two disks. How do you go about partitioning/slicing the new disk in linux ? which utility do you use ?
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I have two disks on Red Hat Linux box. Disk one has been installed Linux Operating system.
The disk two has been partitioned as one disk with 100 GB on the partition /dev/hda1.
Right now, I want to modify it as 5 partitions.
I like to partition disk 2 into 5 partitions.
One... (2 Replies)
I have few new EMC disks assigned from Stroage. I can pvcreate small disks (8.7GB), but bigger disks (71GB) are giving problem. -f also doesn't help.
root@tlcqr201:/> pvcreate /dev/emcpowerge
/dev/emcpowerge: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/emcpowerge: read failed... (2 Replies)
I downloaded the oracle linux 6.7 from RHEL, I wanted to extend the storage for "/" from default 16GB to say 200GB. Here's the steps I tried is :
1. Init 1
2. Using “fdisk /dev/xvda” , delete the swap /dev/xvda3 as well as /dev/xvda2
3. Re-create /dev/xvda2 with linux LVM using new end blocks ... (1 Reply)
I downloaded the RH Linux 6.7 from RHEL, I wanted to extend the storage for "/" from default 16GB to say 200GB. Here’s the steps I tried is :
1. Init 1
2. Using “fdisk /dev/xvda” , delete the swap /dev/xvda3 as well as /dev/xvda2
3. Re-create /dev/xvda2 with linux LVM using new end... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
fdisk
FDISK(8) System Manager's Manual FDISK(8)NAME
fdisk - partition a hard disk [IBM]
SYNOPSIS
fdisk [-hm] [-sn] [file]
OPTIONS -h Number of disk heads is m
-s Number of sectors per track is n
EXAMPLES
fdisk /dev/hd0 # Examine disk partitions
fdisk -h9 /dev/hd0 # Examine disk with 9 heads
DESCRIPTION
When fdisk starts up, it reads in the partition table and displays it. It then presents a menu to allow the user to modify partitions,
store the partition table on a file, or load it from a file. Partitions can be marked as MINIX, DOS or other, as well as active or not.
Using fdisk is self-explanatory. However, be aware that repartitioning a disk will cause information on it to be lost. Rebooting the sys-
tem immediately is mandatory after changing partition sizes and parameters. MINIX, XENIX, PC-IX, and MS-DOS all have different partition
numbering schemes. Thus when using multiple systems on the same disk, be careful.
Note that MINIX, unlike MS-DOS , cannot access the last sector in a partition with an odd number of sectors. The reason that odd partition
sizes do not cause a problem with MS-DOS is that MS-DOS allocates disk space in units of 512-byte sectors, whereas MINIX uses 1K blocks.
Fdisk has a variety of other features that can be seen by typing h.
Fdisk normally knows the geometry of the device by asking the driver. You can use the -h and -s options to override the numbers found.
SEE ALSO part(8).
FDISK(8)