On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 12:16:33AM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > El vie, 03 de dic de 1999, a las 03:43:39 -0600, Brad dijo: > > On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:11:05PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > /dev/hda1 * 1 10 80293+ 83 Linux native > > > /dev/hda2 11 20 80325 83 Linux native > > > /dev/hda3 1000 1024 200812+ 82 Linux swap > > > /dev/hda4 21 999 7863817+ 5 Extended > > > > You've used up all your primary partitions, so it's impossible to create > > another partition out of that free space. You can't even expand the > > extended partition (hda4) to include that extra space, since there's > > another primary in the way (hda3). > > > > The only way to get use out of that space is to repartition. > > Thanks, but I already knew all that. In fact, /dev/hda2 is empty and is > not being used at all, so I could use that one.
Note that that will still leave cylendars 11 through 20 unusable (unless you absorb them into another partition, by repartitioning or resizing (if you try to resize, be sure to back up in case something goes wrong)) > But my question was different: when I first partitioned my disk, I > left NO space without partitioning... so, what's that "unusable" space > doing there? where did it come from? You never mentioned that in your original post. On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:11:05PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > fdisk reports at start: > > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1046. > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, > and could in certain setups cause problems with: > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) This may have something to do with it. Notice that the last partition ends at 1024, inplying that the unused space is that from 1025 to 1046. Possibly whatever utility you used to partition the disk refused to recognize any cylendars greater than 1024. Of course, this is just a guess, i could be wrong. -- finger for GPG public key. 29 Nov 1999 - new email address added to gpg key
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