how to check free/unallocated/unpartitioned space of hdd

[Maaz]

Dear Experts
fdisk doesnt show the unpartitioned/free space of hard disk.
how to check free/unallocated/unpartitioned space of hard disk ?

Regards
Maaz

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Fdisk shows the total size of the disk, and the current partitions. You can know the free space by using these information.

If you post the results of the fdisk -l command, i will tell you how much free space you have in your disk (if any).

[Andrew Bruce]

Ivan is right, fdisk -l will show you disk space and how it is allocated.

Alternatively, if you're looking for an easy way to examine your disks, try qtparted:
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/index.en.html

It's billed as a linux clone of Partition Magic.

The downside is that fdisk is included by default on all linux distros, while qtparted is not...

Regards,

Andy Bruce

[Maaz]

Thanks Ivan Ferreira and Andrew Bruce
Ivan Ferreira i m sending the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda

[Maaz]

Dear Andrew Bruce i m trying to install the qparted and the following error received

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!

I m sending u the output of ./configure

Regards
Maaz

[Ivan Ferreira]

You have 883923 free 1k blocks (+/- 880MB).

[Maaz]

Thanks Ivan Ferreira.
Plz help regarding QT error

Regards
Maaz

[Ivan Ferreira]

Try installing qtparted from the rpm file:

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/qtparted/

Use rpm -ivh qparted-.rpm

To install.

[Maaz]

Thanks Ivan Ferreira for the help
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/qtparted/ they dont have rpm for rhel 4. So what should i do then ?
Second i download the rhl9 rpm and tried to install the rpm on rhl 9 box, it shows two dependencies
#rpm -ivh qtparted-0.4.4-1.0.rh9.rf.i386.rpm
warning: /opt/qtparted-0.4.4-1.0.rh9.rf.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
error: Failed dependencies:
libdal-0.3.so.0 is needed by qtparted-0.4.4-1.0.rh9.rf
libreiserfs-0.3.so.0 is needed by qtparted-0.4.4-1.0.rh9.rf
Any help will be highly appreciated

Regards
Maaz

[Ivan Ferreira]

Sorry, I did not realized that, go here:

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/1/search/config(qtparted)

If there are dependencies, you need to search, download and install them also.

Specify the dependencias along with the package, so, it will look like:

rpm -ivh package.rpm package.rpm package.rpm

or

rpm -Uvh package.rpm package.rpm package.rpm

[Maaz]

Thanks Ivan Ferreira for continous help
But unfortunately they http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/1/search/config(qtparted) also dont have qtparted for rhel 4.
I think the only possible solution is to install from source.
so if u, or any1 here can plz help me to install qtparted from source. I tried to install from source and have posted the error, in the earlier post

Once again thanks

Regards
Maaz

[Ivan Ferreira]

The link that I provided before had qparted for FC4, do you see a different output?. Is located here:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/

Specifically:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/qtparted-0.4.4-3.i386.rpm

Doing it from the source will require the installation of libraries, etc. That's why I insist with rpm files. Also, programs to support ntfs, xfs, etc, or disable them at compilation time.

Cheers!

[Ivan Ferreira]

Also, if you have full Internet access, and you configured the /etc/yum.conf file, you may try install qtparted using:

yum install qtparted

YUM will download the packages and the dependencies (I cannot test).

[Maaz]

Thanks Ivan
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Regards
Maaz

[Jess Long]

Maaz:

My personal choice for determining what is in use on a disk is sfdisk -l .

This should identify each partition, what type it is, it's size, etc.

Regards,
Jess