No space for new partition on SATA drive, but 61GBfreespace
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Aug 1 15:12:30 UTC 2008
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....
> 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.
>
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Kevin J. Cummings
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