[TriLUG] Creating a new partition

[Jason Tower]

try running fdisk as root rather than normal user (K-->knoppix-->root 
shell)

jason

On Monday 26 January 2004 05:45, Mike M wrote:
> My laptop has /dev/hda1 (windoz), /dev/hda5 (Linux), and /dev/hda6
> (Linux swap), and 20GB unpartitioned.
>
> knoppix at edison:~$ cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name
>
>   3     0   58605120 hda
>   3     1   12610993 hda1
>   3     2          1 hda2
>   3     5   19535008 hda5
>   3     6     497983 hda6
>
> I want to create a FAT32 partition in the unpartitioned part of the
> disk.
>
> I though I'd use fdisk but I get this:
>
> knoppix at edison:~$ fdisk /dev/hda
>
> Unable to open /dev/hda
>
> Googling is not helping much.  Any hint appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Mike