No space for new partition on SATA drive, but 61GBfreespace

Nigel Henry cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr
Fri Aug 1 15:56:44 UTC 2008


On Friday 01 August 2008 17:12, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I can think of better fielsystems to use instead of FAT32 for that.
> Ext2 comes to mind first....

This has nothing to do with the problem I am having with installing Fedora 9 
on sda1, but I think the reason I'm still using FAT32 filesystems to save and 
retrieve data from various Linux distros, is that I started my computer 
experience using Windows (soon changed to Linux), and having a data drive on 
the Windows machine with FAT32 partitions on it, I found there were no 
problems writing files from Linux distro's to it. the only very small 
problem, is that if you have files with filenames that have uppercase 
characters, saving to FAT32 changes them to lowercase.

I don't want this thread of mine to drift off from the subject, but is it as 
easy to set up ext2 partitions, as read/write, so that no matter which Linux 
distro I have booted at the time, I can write/read data to them?


>
> > 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.
>
> --
> Kevin J. Cummings
> kjchome at rcn.com
> cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
> cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
> Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)

Nigel.




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