On Sunday 18 February 2001 18:15, Moritz Schulte wrote: > studenten wg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > can i know just delete /dev/hda5 and recreate it with 500M size ?? ( > > in single user mode i suppose )... > > No, you can't do that. /dev/hda5 is a so-called "device file". Device > files are the interfaces to the device drivers. If you access > /dev/hda5, Linux forwards the requests to the device driver, which is > responsible for this device file. So, /dev/hda5 isn't 500MB; the > partition, which is represented by /dev/hda5 is 500MB big. > > hth, > moritz
i didn't mean to delete /dev/hda5 as file... i meant deleting the partition with fdisk... but i will now try ( after a backup ) parted... peter
