Ubuntu 9.04 Server - Help me find other partition and format it

DJMK4 · 27 Oct 2009 at 10:26

Hi,

When I installed ubuntu, I have 1 single HDD in there (80GB) of which i believe is in 2 partions, one is 30GB which is the filesystem currently in use for the ubuntu installation, this is showing up in "my computer" in ubuntu servers. However there is another 50GB somewhere that I believe is not in use and I cannot find it, how do I find this in ubuntu and format the partition so I can begin using it for an addional drive to store stuff on?

Thanks very much for your help in advance

DJMK4 · 27 Oct 2009 at 12:27

ok, i done the above, and its showing as;

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe2e8cc58

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9698 77899153+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda2 9699 9729 249007+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 9699 9729 248976 83 Linux

however i can only see one filesystem in 'my computer' which totals to 26gb.

there is a 2nd parition there which is not formatted, i cant seem to reveal or format this

DJMK4 · 27 Oct 2009 at 12:54

DJMK4 · 27 Oct 2009 at 13:03

DJMK4 · 27 Oct 2009 at 13:51

DJMK4 · 27 Oct 2009 at 14:11

DJMK4 · 27 Oct 2009 at 14:14

DJMK4 · 27 Oct 2009 at 14:30

ill try this now

DJMK4 · 27 Oct 2009 at 14:40

/dev/mapper/rv-1root on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors)

DJMK4 · 27 Oct 2009 at 14:55

ok, done that, now I have a total filesystem capacity of 71.6GB

Thanks.

This seems to be in one filesystem (if you think about how windows works, you have a C: Partion, then more often or not, most people have a seperate D: partition for data). This is what I am trying to achieve.

Thanks