oldman <talbotscott@xxxxxxx> writes: > Now I know full well there are more sectors available as I am using less > than half of the drive! Ah, but you're using all the sectors in your extended partition. You need to either [carefully] grow hda2, or add another primary extended partition (say, hda3) which covers the rest of the drive, into which you can add more logical partitions. > As you can see I should have 16065 cylinders but cannot access them. You have 14593 cylinders. You have used 4807 of them. You should have 9786 left. > Is there a definite maximum number of partitions allowed on a > drive, and have I reached it? I have drives with 14 partitions on them. I've had up to 25 before.
