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  From: Alain Satre <alain@messagebay.com>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:28:39 -0800

Partitioning unallocated space

Hi,

I recently setup a new linux server which has several drives in a raid
configuration making a total of 35GB.  When I went through the RedHat
6.2 install, it would not allow me to create more than four partitions,
including swap, saying no slots availible.  I did make a / /boot /home
swap partitions, but left 16 gb free, unallocated space hoping that I
could come back after the install and partition it, then format and
mount it as a new directory for backup storage.  Only thing is, I cannot
seem to find a way to access that unallocated space.  I have read
mkfs(1) and fdisk, etc.  They always refer to a filesystem that is
already been created e.g: filesys is either the device name (e.g.
/dev/hda1,  /dev/sdb2).  However the space left over I dont think is a
device yet.  Where should I start?

Any help appreciated...

Al-

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