Only 4 partitions available after resizing drive with XP on it
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Sat Jul 14 23:38:11 UTC 2007
Nigel Henry wrote:
> As it's quite this afternoon, I thought I'd ask this question, as it's a bit
> puzzling to me.
>
> A while back as I'd run out of available harddrive space for new FC versions,
> I resized the original harddrive from this machine that had XP preinstalled
> on it, using the gparted live cd, and it went like clockwork. XP with 12GB,
> and the rest was now free space.
>
> Next I install Kubuntu on the drive, giving it a /, and a /home partition, let
> it have half of the freespace, as I also wanted somewhere for another
> instance of FC5. For some reason custom partitioning named the partitions as
> hda5, and hda6 for / , and /home respectively, and Kubuntu didn't ask, and I
> couldn't find a way to make a swap partition. No problem as there is 1GB of
> RAM on the machine. So far so good. Grub's in the MBR, and both Kubuntu, and
> that other OS bootup ok.
>
> Now it gets confusing.
>
> I go to install FC5, again with custom partitioning as I always do, and create
> a / partition of 9GB. No problem. Next create a /home partition of 4GB, and
> again no problem. Now I try to create a swap partition, and get a complaint
> about not enough partitioning space, or something like that, even though
> there is just on 1GB of harddrive space available.
>
> Now I remove the 4GB home partition, and try to create the swap partition
> again. This time no problem, and I have an 800MB swap partition. Now I try to
> recreate the /home partition (4GB, and enough space), but again a no-go, and
> a complaint about not enough partitioning space/no partitions available.
>
> Ok. I'm not too bothered about the swap, so I remove the swap partition, and
> use all the available free space to recreate the /home partition, put Grub in
> the / partition for FC5, and some time later after editing
> Kubuntu's /boot/grub/grub.conf, adding a chainloader to FC5's root partition,
> all 3 OS's boot ok.
>
> The confusing bit is the available partitions. XP has got hda1, Kubuntu has
> got hda5, and hda6, and FC5 has got hda3, and hda4. Quite why Kubuntu was
> given hda5, and 6 when it was installed 1st, and FC5 was given hda3, and hda4
> I don't know, but either way it would appear (leaving out XP from the
> equation) that there are only 4 available partitions left on this drive for
> Linux.
>
> I've probably done something wrong somewhere, but can anyone shed any light on
> this confusing problem.
>
> Your Saturday afternoon puzzler posted from Northern France. Weather cloudy
> but dry, 70°F, if I've done the C to F correctly in my head. Very light
> breeze, and with a beer in my hand, sitting in the cellar looking out on the
> back yard, all in all a nice afternoon. (UTC+2)
>
> Nigel.
>
I'm guessing that you checked the "make this a primary partition" box.
Don't do that.
If that doesn't help, do "fdisk -l" and post the result.
Anyone with enough taste to drink beer in France deserves help.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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