partitions and fdisk

From: Alex Kendrick (alex_6136_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:53:38 +0000 (UTC)

I'm trying to create a new partition on my (one) hard disk. At the moment
there are 3, boot, swap, and linux and all my data itself. My partition
program is fdisk but I can't get it to create a new partition. To anyone
familiar with the program, when i use the 'n' command it just replies that
there are no spare sectors avaliable. Which is right, they are all used up.
I can't find the command on fdisk to free up some sectors and then use these
as my new partition, even when in exit mode.

I could only create a new partition in my original linux partition, i mean a
partition within a partition. I don't even know if this counts as a feasable
solution. The new partition i made dosent appear in the /dev directory. And
when I try to mount it, bash tells me this device does not exist. In
frustration I've deleted this old partition.

If heard of a program called cfdisk but I don't have it. Thanks in advance
for your replies. P.S any info on hard drive geometry (sectors cylinders etc
would be usefull, as well as the precise definition of megabyte, kilobyte
etc, (every school kid knows this but i've forgotten!))

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