-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I think that GParted cannot do it.
Arief M Utama <arief.ut...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 02/07/2012 12:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 11:36:15PM +0700, Arief M Utama wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> >>> I thought I'm already a veteran user until I discovered I know >>> almost nothing about this problem today :-D >>> >>> Got a problem here, I have a laptop with pre-installed windows, the >>> partition scheme is more-or-less like this: >>> >>> - 100M partition (hidden) - seems like a Windows-helper partition (I >>> read something about it, forgotten now) >>> - ~960 GB Windows partition >>> - ~20GB Recovery partion >>> - ~10M another part of recovery partition >>> >>> When I tried to install debian, >>> What I did was shrinking the 960GB partition to ~900GB, then I >>> thought I could have ~60GB for linux. >>> >>> But then it said the free space is unusable, I cant do any >>> partitioning on it. >>> >>> Anyone familiar with this problem? Is this something to do about the >>> partition table can't handle large disk size issue? >> I notice you have four partitions. Are they all primary partitions? >If >> so, this is your problem. > >Yess... you (and Mika) are right! > >Thanks guys, >Been a while since I've met this problem. > >Now I have another problem, how to move all this partition (and turn >some of them into extended partitions) without destroying them. Guess >I'll need to rediscover dd. > >Anyone knows a better tool? Could GParted be used for this? > >Thanks a bunch for the quick help :-) > > >All the best. >-arief > > >> The DOS-style partition layout can handle up to four primary >partitions >> or up to three primary partitions plus one Extended partition. An >> Extended partition may contain any number of logical partitions. >> >> If you look at /dev/sda? from within linux and you get /dev/sda1-4, >then >> these are all primary partitions. If you have /dev/sda5 or above, >then >> you have an extended partition and so shouldn't have a problem with >> this. >> >> If all your partitions ARE primary, you may have a problem. AFAIK, >> Windows likes to boot from primary partitions. The recovery >partitions >> MAY or MAY NOT handle being moved to logical partitions. >> >>> Any help and pointers are appreciated. >>> >>> Please CC me on your replies as I am not subscribed to debian-user >>> currently. >>> > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >listmas...@lists.debian.org >Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f300e97.1070...@gmail.com Mika Suomalainen > gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 03D41B0D C0151D5C > gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8751C396 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: APG v1.0.8 iQFYBAEBCABCBQJPML36OxxNaWthIFN1b21hbGFpbmVuIChzLm1pa2E5NUBnbWFp bC5jb20pIDxzLm1pa2E5NUBnbWFpbC5jb20+AAoJEGfQ7zLAFR1c824H/0TDqPqj t4b2yKnwLmeurDwKcnJrsBAsNvQsVcsB0zFw7L0W8Fm5Kzkebf3fhEXT6pHkFeGQ lKZB/Dusz4XI+AF+KAkKI5dArqMS+/nzHytffAnGJaqbOjRuUrF2qLt0BNqsHaTE m5VQIFvzZ5Vo1QoMb+mNTSzZkL6Fk8E4QH2mNLNPPSrXga4BOjRWGeHugnH6Z5pX pAhuF/B4mGcnRJDIz14VSB9/5a5LlcFFCEqc3jWKdZ5tDi75unzQhmqSszk8k2YA FBVhzElp8jsp/0uH2iDziWp5nj2FWI/C1wXdUJgJZ9D/oq6HtvTHha81Scc8cCAR rX26ohBlHQAgJV8= =FJ5O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/bd5aa30f-8f89-4a04-a392-f14265d1a...@email.android.com
