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unusable space in fdisk

From: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es>
Subject: Re: problems cerating new partition
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:29:51 +0100
References: <20021219074242.1390d692.spam@oblomov.org>
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Farley Benn <nospam@mail.invalid> wrote:
> In article <20021219074242.1390d692.spam@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

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