problems cerating new partition
oblomov
Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 30005821440 bytes, 30.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 3648
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
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hda1 Primary Linux ext2 8.23
hda2 Primary Linux swap 509.97
hda3 Primary Linux ext2 20003.89
Unusable 1480.56
hda4 Boot Primary Win95 FAT32 (LBA) 8003.20
Why does it say 'Unusable'? I would really like to use that space.
karl
Farley Benn
No idea. Good choice using cfdisk though.
Have you run fsck on it? Post the output here if you don't understand it,
and read the manpage first.
Reformatting is an option, also. You DID make backups, didn't you?
Farley
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oblomov
Farley Benn <nos...@mail.invalid> wrote:
> In article <20021219074242...@oblomov.org>, oblomov wrote:
> >
> > Why does it say 'Unusable'? I would really like to use that space.
> Have you run fsck on it? Post the output here if you don't understand
> it, and read the manpage first.
Actually, that 1.5GB is not a partition yet, and as far as I understand
fsck will only check a partition.
Also, they used to be 'Not used' and not 'Unusable'.
> Reformatting is an option, also. You DID make backups, didn't you?
Didn't your Linux provider tell you that real men don't do backup, they
let other people mirror their harddrive? :)
karl
John Winters
Because you have 4 primary partitions which is the limit. The initial
partition table on each disc has room for just 4 entries. If you create
all 4 without using all the disc space then the rest of the disk is
unusable.
To have more partitions you need to create an Extended partition instead
of one of the primary partitions. This uses up one of the primary
partition entries but you can then create logical partitions within
it.
I believe W95/8 will not be a happy camper unless it is on a primary
partition.
You could re-do your disc like this.
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
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hda1 Primary Linux ext2 8.23
hda2 Boot Primary Win95 FAT32 (LBA) 8003.20
hda3 Primary Linux swap 509.97
hda4 Extended 21484.45
hda5 Logical Linux ext2 20003.89
hda6 Logical Linux ext2 1480.56
HTH
John
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Farley Benn
That's it. I assumed that he knew more than he did and paid attention to
his words rather than the table. Thought it was hda3 that was unusable.
Thanks for straightening it out, John.
Peter T. Breuer
> In article <20021219074242...@oblomov.org>, oblomov wrote:
>> Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> hda1 Primary Linux ext2 8.23
>> hda2 Primary Linux swap 509.97
>> hda3 Primary Linux ext2 20003.89
>> Unusable 1480.56
>> hda4 Boot Primary Win95 FAT32 (LBA) 8003.20
>>
>>
>> Why does it say 'Unusable'? I would really like to use that space.
It says that because it is. You have only 4 primary partitions
available and you have used all of them. Thus although there is space
available, there is no partition toput it in! It's unusable.
Why not make an extended partition as one of those primaries? Then you
can have as many partitions as you like within it. hda3 was the best
candidate. But you'll have to extend it a bit. You will anyway!
> No idea. Good choice using cfdisk though.
I hate cfdisk and like fdisk!
Peter