Fedora 21 - Unallocated space undetected

[Antonio Trande]

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On 11/07/2014 04:04 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 19:39 +0100, Antonio Trande wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> 
>> By installing Fedora 21 live Workstation, I noted that all
>> unallocated space on hardisk is not detected so it's not
>> available for a standard partitioning. I had to format in ext4
>> the unallocated space of which I needed in order to make it
>> visible by Anaconda.
>> 
>> Fedora 21 Common Bugs talks of a NTFS resizing bug, not of space 
>> management troubles.
> 
> Hrm. I didn't run into this. Anaconda saw the free space just fine.
> Is the configuration special in anyway?
> 

Well, yes, it is.

Hardisk is divided in:

Model: ATA WDC WD5000BEVT-2 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
 2      58.0GB  68.8GB  10.7GB  primary   linux-swap(v1)
 3      69.7GB  207GB   138GB   primary   ntfs            boot
 4      207GB   500GB   293GB   extended
 5      207GB   208GB   524MB   logical   ext4
 6      208GB   354GB   146GB   logical   ext4
 7      354GB   500GB   146GB   logical   ext4

Unallocated space was contained in an extended partition; Anaconda
detected only free space on the outside of it.

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