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huh? lol i did all that and when i try to mount hdb2 it says it can't find it...lol. I don't know why though. It said it was created and everything else, i don't know whats up with it. Thanks for all your help though, do you have any sudgestion? lol it's exam time and i'm so so busy with things i don't have alot of time to read manuals to figure it all out...lol sorry.

Can you post your mount command and the exact error?

omg haha i'm so so stuipd i'm sorry ...lol it was my fault, i was specifying hdb1 instead of hdb2, exams make me crazy...lol. I wondered though, I'm not the best with fdisk, how would i use the rest of my hd on a partition? i made a new one but i can't make it for the whole hard drive.

You can use fdisk to create a parition the size of you entire disk if that is what you want to do. Infact, it is the default if you create a new parition. If you just hit enter the new partition will be from the end of the previous one until the end of the disk. If you don't have a previous one, it is the entire disk.

If you have 4 paritions, you will have to create an extended partition. This can't directly be used. You have to create a logical parition on top of it. Kind of hard to explain without drawing pictures, but I am sure you can find plenty of explanations on the web and it will eventually make sense.

believe it or not i get what you mean .... lol haha great thanks, i've got only one more question for this topic! lol can you believe it! If i have two partitions and i delete partition one can i edit the second one to take up the space of the first one? or would it just be all lost? I really appreacate all the help, i've never been a wiz with partitions...lol i always messed them up somehow.

You can only do that 2 ways:

1. Use LVM. In this case you still have to partitions but you can add them to one volume group and create 1 logical volume from it.

2. Backup everything on partition 2. Blow away partition 1 and 2. Create a new partition using all the space. Restore the data from partition 2.

If you go into fdisk you will see there is no way to expand partition 2. You can create a new partition with the space from partition 1.

Just for added info. Lets say you have partition 1-3 and have extra space at the end of the disk. If you delete partition 1 you cannot create a larger partition using the space from partition 1 and the space at the end of the disk. The space must be sequential to create a partition in fdisk.

shit haha thats what i though! boo oh well haha i'll ahve to wait cuas ei've got nothing to back it all up on but thanks! lol i'll do that when i get my new computer! Thanks for the extra info to man kida straightens things out for me haha.