Re: Unable to create a logical partition and How to send an installation report ?

[Thorny <thorntreehome@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:01:28 +0530, Gireesh posted:

>> I am unable to create a logical partition using gparted. My unallocated
>> space is 27 GB.
> 
> Due to some basic restrictions with disk partitioning, you can't have more
> than 4 physical partitions or 3 physical partitions + 1 logical partition
> on the disk. Double check if you already have 4 physical partions and if
> that is the case, delete one of them, then make an extended partition out
> the the total unallocated space. Finally, you should try to create logical
> partitions on the extended partition.
> 
> The max number of logical partitions can be only 15 for scsi disks and 63
> for IDE disks. I know for a fact because I have hit the 15 partition limit
> on my laptop SCSI disk ;-)
> 
> 
> Don't blame me if this helps very little but it's the best I could come up
> with the available data. Seriously, you should consider providing more
> data, probably fdisk -l (or similar) from a shell and what you exactly did
> with gparted.
> 
> 
> --Gireesh

Did you perhaps mean to reply this to the OP, it has nothing to do with my
reply.