I recently installed Mandrake 9.2. When I installed Mandrake I had it
partition automatically and it formatted the unused 63 GB of my IDE hard
disc, the other 49GB is WinXP. However, upon doing "df" I discover that "/"
is only 5.8GB large! Here is the output

Device Mount Point Size
======== ============ ======
hda1 /mnt/windows 48GB
hda5 / 5.8GB
hda6 swap 494MB
hda7 56GB

hda7 is unmounted but is formatted as a journalised ext3 filesystem.
Why would Mandrake choose to give me only 5.8GB (already about 75% used)?
How can I use hda7 space?

Larry Gagnon
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Hello

lagagnon (<lagagnon@fakeuniserve.com>) wrote:

> I recently installed Mandrake 9.2. When I installed Mandrake I had it
> partition automatically and it formatted the unused 63 GB of my IDE
> hard disc, the other 49GB is WinXP. However, upon doing "df" I
> discover that "/" is only 5.8GB large! Here is the output
>
> Device Mount Point Size
> ======== ============ ======
> hda1 /mnt/windows 48GB
> hda5 / 5.8GB
> hda6 swap 494MB
> hda7 56GB
>
> hda7 is unmounted but is formatted as a journalised ext3 filesystem.
> Why would Mandrake choose to give me only 5.8GB (already about 75%
> used)? How can I use hda7 space?

You can simply mount it somewhere, for example in /home. You move the
contents of that directory somewhere else, mount hda7 there, and move
everything back. Now you only have to add a line for that partition in
your /etc/fstab to mount it automatically at boottime. The space on
your / should be enough for any normal desktop linux system, if you
keep your personal files somewhere else, like on /dev/hda7. You can of
course also divide hda7 into more partitions, format them and mount
them where ever you need, like in /usr. There is plenty of information
on the web regarding partitioning, and I think there is also a Howto.
Just use google or some other search engine.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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On 2003-12-16, Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote:
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> You can simply mount it somewhere, for example in /home. You move the
> contents of that directory somewhere else, mount hda7 there, and move
> everything back.

Or, eliminate a move step by mounting hda7 somewhere else, moving the
contents of home there, then umount hda7 and remount at /home.

- --keith

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"Andreas Janssen" <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> lagagnon (<lagagnon@fakeuniserve.com>) wrote:
>
> > I recently installed Mandrake 9.2. When I installed Mandrake I had it
> > partition automatically and it formatted the unused 63 GB of my IDE
> > hard disc, the other 49GB is WinXP. However, upon doing "df" I
> > discover that "/" is only 5.8GB large! Here is the output
> >
> > Device Mount Point Size
> > ======== ============ ======
> > hda1 /mnt/windows 48GB
> > hda5 / 5.8GB
> > hda6 swap 494MB
> > hda7 56GB
> >
> > hda7 is unmounted but is formatted as a journalised ext3 filesystem.
> > Why would Mandrake choose to give me only 5.8GB (already about 75%
> > used)? How can I use hda7 space?
>
> You can simply mount it somewhere,


or you can resize the / partition to have more space, no particular problem
with that.

First, run "fdisk /dev/hda" and "p" and check that the swap space and
unusused space is on the drive (at higher cylinders/sectors) than hda5

Then

uswap /dev/hda6

fdisk /dev/hda
and delete the 6 and 7th partition.

then reboot, and at the lilo or grub menu, add some options to the
kernel...

init=/bin/sh

and run
e2fsresize /dev/hda5

Or you can boot a linux floppy or cd, and run a static binary of
e2fsresize...

Leon

"Keith Keller" <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote in message
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> On 2003-12-16, Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >
> > You can simply mount it somewhere, for example in /home. You move the
> > contents of that directory somewhere else, mount hda7 there, and move
> > everything back.
>
> Or, eliminate a move step by mounting hda7 somewhere else, moving the
> contents of home there, then umount hda7 and remount at /home.
>
> - --keith

Or since it's very early in the setup of this setup of this system,
re-install the Linux with the partitions set up the way you want them. To
me, and many others, making too many Linux parititions is like putting every
pot in a different cupboard. It's awkward and *wasteful*, and you can't use
the space efficiently without a lot of work.