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Gparted: Will not create another Logical partition
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Maurice Batey
Aug 27, 2012, 11:58:50 AM8/27/12
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Using Live Gparted on USB flash drive to define another partition in
unallocated space, it insists on creating a new *primary* partition,
rather than another Logical partition within the Extended partition.
The layout (as created by the Mageia-2 installer) is shown as:
/dev/sda1: (Root) ( 8.00GB)
sda2: Extended partion (63.60GB)
sda5: Swap ( 3.90GB)
sda6: (Home) (59.76GB)
Unallocated (222.48GB)
When I select the Unallocated area and request 'new'; the resulting
menu shows partition types Primary, Extended, and Logical, but the
latter two are greyed out, so only 'Primary' is selectable.
But I don't want a primary. What I want is another Logical partiton
(e.g. sda7) to follow sda6 on the drive.
It's quite a while since I used Gparted, so I may have forgotten some
magic incantation, but how does one get Gparted to create a new Logical
partititon here?
Does the Extended partition perhaps have to be somehow extended to
encompass the Unallocated space?
(This is on a Samsung NC110 netbook, with American Megatrends Aptio
BIOS, 2GB RAM, 320GB drive.)
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/\/\aurice (Retired in Surrey, UK)
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unallocated space, it insists on creating a new *primary* partition,
rather than another Logical partition within the Extended partition.
The layout (as created by the Mageia-2 installer) is shown as:
/dev/sda1: (Root) ( 8.00GB)
sda2: Extended partion (63.60GB)
sda5: Swap ( 3.90GB)
sda6: (Home) (59.76GB)
Unallocated (222.48GB)
When I select the Unallocated area and request 'new'; the resulting
menu shows partition types Primary, Extended, and Logical, but the
latter two are greyed out, so only 'Primary' is selectable.
But I don't want a primary. What I want is another Logical partiton
(e.g. sda7) to follow sda6 on the drive.
It's quite a while since I used Gparted, so I may have forgotten some
magic incantation, but how does one get Gparted to create a new Logical
partititon here?
Does the Extended partition perhaps have to be somehow extended to
encompass the Unallocated space?
(This is on a Samsung NC110 netbook, with American Megatrends Aptio
BIOS, 2GB RAM, 320GB drive.)
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/\/\aurice (Retired in Surrey, UK)
(Replace "nomail.afraid" by "bcs" to reply by email)
Gernot Fink
Aug 27, 2012, 12:40:00 PM8/27/12
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In article <pan.2012.08.27....@nomail.afraid.org>,
You have to grow /dev/sda2. Then you get unallocated space in the extended
partition.
Add the new partition into the added free space of sda2.
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MFG Gernot
Maurice Batey <mau...@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
> The layout (as created by the Mageia-2 installer) is shown as:
>
> /dev/sda1: (Root) ( 8.00GB)
> sda2: Extended partion (63.60GB)
> sda5: Swap ( 3.90GB)
> sda6: (Home) (59.76GB)
> Unallocated (222.48GB)
>
> When I select the Unallocated area and request 'new'; the resulting
> menu shows partition types Primary, Extended, and Logical, but the
> latter two are greyed out, so only 'Primary' is selectable.
>
Logical partitions must be in a extended partition.
> The layout (as created by the Mageia-2 installer) is shown as:
>
> /dev/sda1: (Root) ( 8.00GB)
> sda2: Extended partion (63.60GB)
> sda5: Swap ( 3.90GB)
> sda6: (Home) (59.76GB)
> Unallocated (222.48GB)
>
> When I select the Unallocated area and request 'new'; the resulting
> menu shows partition types Primary, Extended, and Logical, but the
> latter two are greyed out, so only 'Primary' is selectable.
>
You have to grow /dev/sda2. Then you get unallocated space in the extended
partition.
Add the new partition into the added free space of sda2.
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MFG Gernot
Maurice Batey
Aug 27, 2012, 1:04:43 PM8/27/12
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:40:00 +0000, Gernot Fink wrote:
> You have to grow /dev/sda2.
Ah, yes - of course! That's what I had forgotten...
> You have to grow /dev/sda2.
All fixed uo now.
Many thanks, Gernot!
Regards,
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/\/\aurice
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