creating new linux filesystem

[Gerald_7]

I 've installed RH Linux 7.2 on a Intel processor. I have 70 Gbytes of disk space
on my IDE disk drive. I want to create
several new filesystems(u0, u1, u2; u3)
on the same disks. What is the best(easiest)
way of accomplishing this?

Thanks

[Junior C.]

Greald,

The following link should help you.

www.sistina.com/products_lvm.htm


JRC

[I_M]

Hi

(1) use fdisk to create partition.
(2) use mkfs to create filesystem

# mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdax (ext2 fs)
# mke2fs -j /dev/hdax (ext3 fs)
# mkfs -t msdos /dev/hdax (dos fs)

(3) mount fs (edit /etc/fstab)

(4) Enjoy

[Gerald_7]

Will using fdisk and mkfs be innocolous to the
RH O.S. and file systems currently installed
on the disk drive?

Thanks,


gerald

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Gerald,
use ext3 file system rather then ext2. It is fast to recover and you have less data loss.

Sachin

[Mark Fenton]

Gerald -- that depends on whether you have "extra" - unused space.

If you've already assigned all space on the drive to partitions, obviously you'll have to redo the whole thang and start over -- there not being any way to gracefully reduce an active partition.

If you do have un-allocated space, allocating it shouldn't do violence to existing partitions.