Hi All,
I am resizing a Windows partition to get some space for Gentoo. I
noticed that when gparted finished and I rebooted the machine there is
a blank unallocated space in front of the Windows 7 partition, shown
below as 6.33MB:
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cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.16.1)
Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 500107862016 bytes, 500.1 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 60801
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
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sda1 Primary Dell Utility 41.13
sda2 Boot Primary NTFS [] 15728.64*
Pri/Log Free Space 6.33*
sda3 Primary NTFS [] 52426.47*
Pri/Log Free Space 431902.70*
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Also, when I used gparted to create a new extended partition over the
431G free space at the end of the disk I ended up with a similar small
unallocated space in front of it. This is something I have observed
happening recently on 3 laptops that I have worked on, i.e. resizing
or creating a new partition inevitably creates a small blank partition
in front of it.
Looking at the sectors table I see this:
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Partition Table for /dev/sda
First Last
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flag
-- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ----
1 Primary 0 80324 63 80325 Dell Utility (DE) None
2 Primary 80325 30800324* 0 30720000*HPFS/NTFS (07) Boot
Pri/Log 30800325* 30812669 0 12345*Free Space None
3 Primary 30812670 133208104* 0 102395435*HPFS/NTFS (07) None
Pri/Log 133208105* 976768064 0 843559960*Free Space None
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I am not sure what the asterisks are for after the last sector on the
second and third partitions.
Could this empty space jump be related to gparted somehow shifting the
start of a partition to make it align with a particular sector as per
previous thread on the 4k sector topic?
Should I do anything about it, or just run with it and let gparted
align what it wants to align as part of the partitioning process?
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Regards,
Mick
