I am assuming you have no software raid devices like md0 etc as this would hide hdb10
regards Steven -----Original Message----- From: Steven Jones Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:12 a.m. To: [KS]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Formatting an unused partition Do a df -h and look for hdb10 to make sure it is not mounted/used. The next stage depends on how paranoid you are, at this point if you are confident its unused you can make a file system on it. If not mount it and go see if amything is in it. regards Steven -----Original Message----- From: [KS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:24 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Formatting an unused partition Bonjour tous, I have two HDDs (40+80G). The smaller one (/dev/hda) has WinXP on it(hardly used), and bigger one (/dev/hdb) has Debian Sid installed. I was checking free space on /dev/hdb and by chance summed up all the partition sizes. I was surprised to see that the sum was considerably less than 80GB(I didn't even remember that it was there). I did a cat /proc/partitions and it showed that there was an ~18GB partition (/dev/hdb10). Then I checked with cfdisk and it showed the partion as FS=Linux but no type. What are the various options that I use to format that partion and use it? I did read about cfdisk but I just want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing as it is being done as root. Thanks, /KS PS: The output of cfdisk is copied below: Disk Drive: /dev/hdb Size: 80026361856 bytes, 80.0 GB Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 9729 Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ hdb1 Boot Primary Linux ext3 197.41 hdb2 Primary Linux ext3 6999.72 hdb3 Primary Linux ext3 1998.75 hdb5 Logical Linux ext3 1998.75 hdb6 Logical Linux swap 1003.49 hdb7 Logical Linux ext3 501.75 hdb8 Logical Linux ext3 20003.89 hdb9 Logical Linux ext3 27003.60 hdb10 Logical Linux 20316.45 _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
