Re: Unusable free space?
Stephen Powell put forth on 3/17/2010 8:20 AM:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:49 -0400 (EDT), Aioanei Rares wrote:
>>
>> Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout ,
>> as reported by df :
>>
>> /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% /
>> /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G 9% /boot
>> /dev/sda5 345G 232G 96G 71% /home
>> /dev/sda8 29G 172M 27G 1% /tmp
>> /dev/sda6 59G 5.2G 54G 9% /usr
>> /dev/sda7 20G 3.1G 17G 16% /var
>>
>> Now, at the end, I have some 137 GB unpartitioned/unformatted. How can I
>> use this free space, since gparted ran from a LiveCD tells me that I
>> need to make a logical partition (which is /dev/sda4) in order to create
>> partitions anew in that free space. It's probably lack of sleep, but
>> please help me out here. :)
> You can still create up to two more primary partitions, providing
Not necessarily. He's not showing swap (assuming he's using a partition not
a file). If partition, swap is at /dev/sda3, 4, or 9.
> the space is available outside the extended partition, and these
> would have names /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4, respectively. But there's
> no way you can create a new logical partition called /dev/sda4.
Agreed, there's not. He'd have to make a primary partition to get a device
name of /dev/sda4. I'm not sure what you mean by "space is available
outside the extended partition". TTBOMK, extended partitions are place
holders. They don't own or contain any blocks unless or until you create
logical partitions after having created an extended partition. If there is
still unallocated space anywhere on the block device, and there are both
unassigned primary and logical partitions available, he can freely use
either. For instance, on my vanity server I have a similar situation:
http://www.hardwarefreak.com/cfdisk.jpg
I have about 250GB of unallocated space within which I can create two
additional primary partitions, or unlimited? logical partitions.
--
Stan
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