On Thursday 31 July 2008 21:06, Rick Stevens wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Thursday 31 July 2008 19:51, Anders Karlsson wrote: > >> * Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [20080731 19:24]: > >>> This is the first time that I've used SATA harddrives on this new > >>> machine that I've built, so am a bit in the dark. > >>> > >>> Fedora 8 is using sda1 for / , and sda2 for /home. sda3 is swap > >>> > >>> sda4 (the 4th primary is the extended partition) > >>> > >>> sda5, and 6, are / , and /home for another linux distro > >>> sda7, and 8, are / , and /home for another linux distro > >>> sda9, and 10, are / , and /home for yet another linux distro > >>> sda11, and 12, are / , and /home for another linux distro > >> > >> So you have used up all four primary partitions available, making the > >> fourth the container for extended partitions. You've then proceeded to > >> allocate most of your 15 possible partitions. > >> > >>> There is still showing 61020 MB of free space on the drive, but trying > >>> to create a new partition for the install of Fedora 9, with 10000MB for > >>> / I get the following output. Written in freehand. > >>> > >>> Error Partitioning > >>> > >>> ould not allocate requested partitions: Partitioning failed: Could not > >>> allocate partitions as primary partitions. Not enough space left to > >>> create partition for /. > >> > >> Yeah, you're trying to create it as a primary partition, but you > >> already have used up all those slots. > > > > Actually this is a bit strange, because the Fedora 9 partitioning tool > > when you want to create a new partition from freespace, doesn't give > > options for primary, or logical partitions. All there was was a checkbox > > which said "force as primary partition", which obviously I didn't check, > > because I knew that all primaries were used up. > > > >>> I'm sure I've seen some stuff about partition limits on SATA drives, > >>> but can't remember where. If there are limits, are there any > >>> workarounds so that I can use this 61+GB of freespace. > >> > >> man fdisk > > > > I'll have a look at that again, because logically there still should be 3 > > useable logical partitions within the extended partition, which would > > enable me to use this 16GB of freespace. > > Actually, we're all assuming that you have /dev/sda4 soaking up all of > the space not used by sda1, sda2 and sda3. If you didn't make sda4 use > all the space, you'll need to grow sda4 to suck it up, THEN you can > create sda13, sda14 and sda15. > > I'm not sure about F9's disk utility, but it may only grow the extended > partition big enough to contain the partitions inside it. If that's > the case, you may need to use the command-line version of fdisk rather > than a GUI version to grow sda4 and put sda13, sda14 and sda15 in the > additional space. It's interesting that you say that, as even though Fedora 9's disk utility showed the more that 16GB of freespace, create new in the freespace, only showed 100MB in the box where you put the size of the new partition. I thought that it normally showed the total space available, then you just changed it to whatever you wanted. > > In fact, a nice "fdisk -l /dev/sda" might be useful here to see if > indeed sda4 is occupying all the space. > > >> It'll tell you most of what you need to know. > >> > >>Rick The fdisk -l /dev/sda output is below, but in the meantime I tried installing Kubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 on the same drive, and had no problems creating sda13 for /, and sda14 for /home, as you can see below, and HH is installed ok. Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0000b82a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1402 11261533+ 83 Linux (F8 /) /dev/sda2 1403 2549 9213277+ 83 Linux (F8 /home) /dev/sda3 2550 2804 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 2805 13988 89835480 5 Extended /dev/sda5 2805 4020 9767488+ 83 Linux (Kubuntu GG /) /dev/sda6 4021 5114 8787523+ 83 Linux (Kubuntu /home) /dev/sda7 5115 6330 9767488+ 83 Linux (Archlinux /) /dev/sda8 6331 7424 8787523+ 83 Linux (Arch /home) /dev/sda9 7425 8761 10739421 83 Linux (Kubuntu DD /) /dev/sda10 8762 9855 8787523+ 83 Linux (Kubuntu /home) /dev/sda11 9856 10949 8787523+ 83 Linux (Debian Etch /) /dev/sda12 10950 11678 5855661 83 Linux (Etch /home) /dev/sda13 11679 12894 9767488+ 83 Linux (Kubuntu HH /) /dev/sda14 12895 13988 8787523+ 83 Linux (Kubuntu /home) And the same for sdb, which is supposed to be just for data, but F9 is also there at the mo. Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0000d51e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 3824 30716248+ b W95 FAT32 (No OS ) /dev/sdb2 3825 7471 29294527+ b W95 FAT32 (No OS ) /dev/sdb3 7472 8746 10241437+ 83 Linux (Fedora 9 /) /dev/sdb4 8747 30401 173943787+ 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 8747 9766 8193118+ 83 Linux (Fedora 9 /home) sdb1, and sdb2 have no Win OS on them, and just so that I can store data easily from any of the Linux OS's easily, and retrieve it again to whichever Linux OS happens to be booted at the time. Can't login to either KDE or Gnome on F9 though. Firstboot ran on the reboot, entered user name, and password, then Firstboot decided to crash. The login screen on a reboot shows my realname, and hovering the mouse over it says logging in using my user name, which it shows. So I enter the password, but nothing from Gnome, just back to the login. Trying a KDE session, it displays an error box top left, saying something like "check installation". Anyway that problem if I can't fix it is for a new thread. Thanks for all the replies. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
