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Alan Perry

2004-01-23, 5:01 pm

In solaris I can rum format to look at disks, see their size, partitions
used and available, etc...... How do I do this on Linux(redhat 7.1)?

I have 2 disks sda and sdb, and look at the df output it appears that there
should be some unpartitioned space on these disks, but I cannot figure out
how to look for it.


Daniel Eyholzer

2004-01-23, 5:01 pm

"Alan Perry" <alan_perry@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
quote:

> In solaris I can rum format to look at disks, see their size,
> partitions used and available, etc...... How do I do this on
> Linux(redhat 7.1)?
>
> I have 2 disks sda and sdb, and look at the df output it appears
> that there should be some unpartitioned space on these disks, but I
> cannot figure out how to look for it.



fdisk -l /dev/sda /dev/sdb

man fdisk


Cheers, Daniel

Alan Perry

2004-01-23, 5:01 pm

Actually cfdisk /dev/sda and cfdisc /dev/sdb actually give you better
visibility as I just discovered.

"Daniel Eyholzer" <newsgroups@flippnet.org> wrote in message
news:20030903214022.0dff47b2.newsgroups@flippnet.org...
quote:

> "Alan Perry" <alan_perry@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> fdisk -l /dev/sda /dev/sdb
>
> man fdisk
>
>
> Cheers, Daniel
>




Tolga Ceylan

2004-01-23, 5:01 pm

"Alan Perry" <alan_perry@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<4yq5b.114$bg6.10388512@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>...
quote:

> In solaris I can rum format to look at disks, see their size, partitions
> used and available, etc...... How do I do this on Linux(redhat 7.1)?
>
> I have 2 disks sda and sdb, and look at the df output it appears that there
> should be some unpartitioned space on these disks, but I cannot figure out
> how to look for it.



Please checkout fdisk tool.


Tolga Ceylan
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