I've got a laptop with a 40Gb drive on which a Windows and Mandrake
8.1 install reside. The Windows FS's got 6.8Gb, linux's got more than
12Gb allocated. Here's my partition table:
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# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 892 7164958+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 893 909 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 910 926 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 927 2488 12546765 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 927 959 265041 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 960 1214 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 1215 2488 10233373+ 83 Linux
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I'd like to create another FS, but when I run fdisk and try to create a
new partition, it tells me that I've got no sectors available. I threw
the install disk in and it sees the space and I can play with it there,
but why can't I in fdisk? I've never had any problem with fdisk before,
so this is kind of tripping me out.
>From the above partition table, you can see that the last cylinder used
is 2488. And according to what it says when going through the install
method, I've got 2489 - 4863 available (another 18Gb).
Can anyone help a brutha out?
Thanks,
-Charlie
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