help formatting / partitioning 1 of 2 hard disks in a laptop

solemneyed solemneyed at gmail.com
Mon May 8 18:17:58 UTC 2006


Hi,

I need help.  My laptop has 2 80gb disks; until recently one of them had
winxp, and I used Grub.  Recently, winxp fatally pissed me off, so I used
gpart (gnome partitioner w/ gui) to erase that partition, but I don't know
what to do with it so it will effectively be added to my existing ubuntu
partition.  One unfortunate experiment caused the machine to boot into a
blank screen, which I took care of by disabling the erased disk in the BIOS.

Below is the current geometry (displayed by a command I found online).  What
should I do to make it into one, big ubuntu volume?

Thanks!
s


solemneyed at ubuntu:~$ for i in /dev/[hs]d[a-z]; do sudo fdisk -l $i; done
Password:

Disk /dev/hde: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hde1               1        9730    78150743+  ee  EFI GPT

Disk /dev/hdg: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdg1   *           1        9667    77650146   83  Linux
/dev/hdg2            9668        9729      498015    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdg5            9668        9729      497983+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
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