HDD Space

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use fdisk to create another partition on the balance of the drive
Riga, Anthony wrote:

>I forgot that I installed the new version of webmin on hdb1. I dont want to reinstall webmin. How can I create the extents of the hdd? Can I create an extended partition (ext3) using the rest of the hdd without losing my webmin? Webmin gives me the option to do it. I just dont want to mess things up.. Thanks! 
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>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org on behalf of A. Paul LeBarron II
>Sent: Sun 12/28/2003 9:26 PM
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: Re: HDD Space  
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>Maybe the HD is partitioned and you only formatted the first partition 
>which was only about 100MB in size.
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>At 09:18 PM 12/28/2003, you wrote:
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>>I added a new hdd to my Redhat Oracle test box running 9.0. Its just an 
>>extra 4.5gb hdd for space. I mounted the drive no problem. When I do a df 
>>-h and view the size of the drive it says
>>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>/dev/hda2             8.6G  7.6G  584M  93% /
>>/dev/hda1              99M  9.0M   85M  10% /boot
>>none                  153M     0  153M   0% /dev/shm
>>/dev/hdb1              99M   38M   57M  40% /mnt/drive2
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>>I did a fdisk -l /dev/hdb1 and get:
>> Disk /dev/hdb1: 106 MB, 106896384 bytes
>>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12 cylinders
>>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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>>Disk /dev/hdb1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
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>>I cant figure out why the hdd space is so low and it says Disk /dev/hdb1 
>>doesn't contain a valid partition table Do I need to reformat the hdd 
>>again? My /etc/fstab file is:
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>>LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
>>LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
>>none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>>none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
>>none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
>>/dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>>/dev/hdb1               /mnt/drive2             ext3    defaults        2 1
>>/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>> Any help would be appreciated thanks!
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