How to check unpartioned free space on disk?

[Beginner_2]

Hi,

How to check unpartioned free space on disk? When i create new partition using fdisk , how i can come to know how much is unpartitioned free space on disk?
I have red hat linux 5.


Thanks,
Rahul

[Matti_Kurkela]

"fdisk -l" will list total size of the disk and the size of each partition. Just subtract the sizes of all existing partitions from the total size and see what's left.

MK

[Beginner_2]

Thanks for quick reply...
Yes, We can do that but we have to do add/substraction .. some manual calculation and some time may go in wrong way...
So i was just looking for something which will give me direct unpartitioned free space..
One more thing.. If you have lots of partitions , then manual calculation is risky
..
Hoping for another solution...

[Abushad]

Hi Rahul,

Use the tool "parted"

#parted

and then type "print free"

Regards,
Abushad