topic Re: How much unallocated space in Operating System - Linux

How much unallocated space

HPDAN — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:55:38 GMT

# fdisk -l /dev/cciss/c0d0

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 299.9 GB, 299966445568 bytes
255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 71798 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 = 4177920 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 163 665024 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 164 3931 15373440 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 3932 4959 4194240 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p4 4960 71798 272703120 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 4960 5987 4194224 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 5988 7015 4194224 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p7 7016 7529 2097104 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p8 7530 8043 2097104 82 Linux swap
/dev/cciss/c0d0p9 8044 8231 767024 83 Linux
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Can someone tell how much unallocated space are there on this hard disk. Can I create a new partiton on it. do it have free space to create it

Re: How much unallocated space

smatador — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:27:23 GMT

Hi,
In my comprehension, you have 71798 cylinders, but you have two partitions starting to 4960. So you have a win95 extended partition with 5 partitions linux, so you could perhaps create more partitions to go to 71798 in this extended partitions. Maybe you have install a linux box on a old windows.

Re: How much unallocated space

Randy Jones_3 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:49:00 GMT

There is free space above cylinder 8231, so about 250 GB could be allocated in new logical partitions.

Re: How much unallocated space

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:00:12 GMT

You have 259353440 (259 GB) of free space.

From the partition 4 (extended), rest each logical unit (partitions 5-9) and you will have the remaining space to create new logical units.