On Monday 10 September 2007 01:56, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/09/09 23:40 (GMT-0400) Kenneth Schneider apparently typed: > > On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 22:21 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: > >> On Sunday 09 September 2007 22:37 (GMT-0400) Bob S wrote: > >> > Here is output of fdisk -l /dev/sda > >> > Felix, Rajko, Ken,
And all of the other great guys on this list who tried to help. What a great bunch! .<snip more older discussion>....... > >> 2) Run in console as root > >> cfdisk > >> and see what it has to tell. In normal circumstances it doesn't list > >> extended partition at all. The space after 10055 cylinder should be > >> explicitly listed as free. So move highlight down to that line (free > >> space) and try to add more partitions. > > That certainly should work. > > > I don't think that will work as he has his extended partition ending at > > 10055 which is where sda9 ends. At this point his only option is to > > backup sda5-sda9, delete them and then recreate the extended partition > > using all of the available space. He will then be able to created more > > partitions. > > sda4 only ends at 10055 because that's where sda9 ends. sda9's EPBR has no > means to tell where the end of the disk is. As soon as sda10 is created, > sda4 will magically grow to end where sda10 ends, unless the partitioning > tool is broken. Only when a logical partition has been created that > includes cylinder 30401 will sda4 show ending at the end of the disk. > -- cfdisk will do it !! Thanks so much ! All the remaining 167GB of free space. I had never heard of cfdisk and was afraid of what I would do so I studied the man page over and over and then tried it. It will work. (Wonder why Yast partitioner won't?) What it will do is create sda10 a logical partition of 167GB of all remaining free space which I am assuming will push the extended partion out to the end of the disk. I didn't do it because I am afraid to do it on my running system ( a concern?) and I didn't want a partition of that huge size, and I don't see (yet) a way to create several smaller partitions. Can that be done in cfdisk? I suppose I could go to the yast partitioner and resize it. but that may make the extended partition shrink. I dunno yet. But I am very happy that I have that space back for when I go to install 10.3. Thanks again guys and all ideas welcome on dividing up that 167GB before I commit. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
