how to create / mount a new partition

[yeehi]

I have space on my hdd.
I want to incorporate that space into / as a new partition.

I want the file /home/yeehi/Mail that is now on my existing system to end up in the new partition.

So, during the mounting i name the new partition
/home/yeehi/Mail

and that will automatically make the file realise it has a new home and it will fall into the new home? Right? haha!

[Varkk]

You will probably need to move the contents of /home/yeehi/Mail to somehwere else(e.g /home/yeehi/Mailbackup), then setup and mount the new partition on /home/yeehi/Mail and copy the files into it. Otherwise you may end up with problems.

[yeehi]

Vark! That:s a good idea. I will do it.

Right now my problem is that i can access no partitioning / mounting tool.

No application i can access shows any awareness of the extra space on my hdd.

I tried typing

diskdruid at a terminal but nothing happened.

How can i get diskdruid or something like it to fire up on my gui?

[Bradlis7]

Do you have Hardware Browser (hwbrowser)?? If you look at Hard drives, it should have free space on there

[deuch]

you can do it with fdisk ...

There a a tools in Menu System ... I'm french an i've not the traduction for this :-)

But if you use KDE, try kdiskfree ...

If you want to see the space of your mounted partition type in a command df -k

deuch