On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:01:28 +0530, Gireesh posted: >> I am unable to create a logical partition using gparted. My unallocated >> space is 27 GB. > > Due to some basic restrictions with disk partitioning, you can't have more > than 4 physical partitions or 3 physical partitions + 1 logical partition > on the disk. Double check if you already have 4 physical partions and if > that is the case, delete one of them, then make an extended partition out > the the total unallocated space. Finally, you should try to create logical > partitions on the extended partition. > > The max number of logical partitions can be only 15 for scsi disks and 63 > for IDE disks. I know for a fact because I have hit the 15 partition limit > on my laptop SCSI disk ;-) > > > Don't blame me if this helps very little but it's the best I could come up > with the available data. Seriously, you should consider providing more > data, probably fdisk -l (or similar) from a shell and what you exactly did > with gparted. > > > --Gireesh
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