Re: (no subject)

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:50:26 +0530 "TMAN" <tman76in yahoo com> imparted
to us:

> Hi,
> 
> I am sending partion table list with attachment.
> 
> Regards
> TMAN

> Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1292 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1       277   2094088+   6  FAT16
> /dev/hda2           278       752   3591000    5  Extended
> /dev/hda3           753       929   1338120   83  Linux
> /dev/hda4           930       947    136080   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda5           278       554   2094088+   6  FAT16
> /dev/hda6           555       752   1496848+   6  FAT16

>From what's shown here, you're out of space. That's because you created
an extended partition at hda2 and put 4 partitions into it. Plus your
extended partition used up all of the rest of the disk. What that
amounts to is, the free space inside of /hda2 (the space beginning at
1496849) is lost.

You can have 4 primary partitions, number 1-4. You can have 4 extended
partitions, numbered almost any way. You have one primary and an
extended with 4 partitions inside. The extended partition takes up all
of the rest of the space on the drive. And it's maxxed out on how many
partitions it can hold (4).

If the partitions INSIDE hda2 had been numbered 6,7,8,9 AND hda2 had
ended at cyl 1496848 you would have room for another partition at hda3.
Or hda2 could have been a primary with some space on it and an extended
beginning with hda5 (the normal) and rising in numbers with 6,7,8,9.

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