Re: Unusable free space?
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:40:01AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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
While this may be true under LVM (never used it, don't know) it's certainly
not true using fdisk where you have to tell fdisk what size partition
to create whether it be primary or extended.
If the OP (Aioanei Rares) will post the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' we
will have enough information to make an informed suggestion, until then
it's all just shooting in the dark.
Mike
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