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Niran Babalola wrote:

>On 5/29/05, Niran Babalola <iamniran at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>For a command line alternative that doesn't
>>require installing anything, I think running
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>>$ fdisk /dev/hda
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>That should be
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>$ sudo fdisk /dev/hda
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>- Niran
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Thanks for that Niran,
checked out fdisk, could really make a mess with it :-)
Have installed Gparted,now even more confused.
My partitions as per df

squareyes at squareyes:~$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5              5961280   1835036   3823424  33% /
tmpfs                   128404         0    128404   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1              6052668   2854512   3198156  48% /windows
/dev                   5961280   1835036   3823424  33% /.dev
none                      5120      2808      2312  55% /dev

Fdisk shows

Disk /dev/hda: 40.9 GB, 40981118976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         755     6064506    b  W95 FAT32  
/dev/hda2             756        4982    33953377+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5             756        1509     6056473+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6            1520        1582      506016   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7   *        1583        4982    27310468+  83  Linux    (ext2 
and /boot)

Gparted shows hda1 as boot
                          hda7 as  boot

Is hda2 the sum of hda1 and hda7  If I delete hda7 partition and grow hda5
will that work?
Thanks again in advance,
Take Care
Winton