No space for new partition on SATA drive, but 61GBfreespace

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> 
> The fdisk -l /dev/sda output is below, but in the meantime I tried installing 
> Kubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 on the same drive, and had no problems creating 
> sda13 for /, and sda14 for /home, as you can see below, and HH is installed 
> ok.
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0000b82a
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        1402    11261533+  83  Linux   (F8 /)
> /dev/sda2            1403        2549     9213277+  83  Linux  (F8 /home)
> /dev/sda3            2550        2804     2048287+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda4            2805       13988    89835480    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            2805        4020     9767488+  83  Linux  (Kubuntu GG /)
> /dev/sda6            4021        5114     8787523+  83  Linux  (Kubuntu /home)
> /dev/sda7            5115        6330     9767488+  83  Linux (Archlinux /)
> /dev/sda8            6331        7424     8787523+  83  Linux (Arch /home)
> /dev/sda9            7425        8761    10739421   83  Linux (Kubuntu DD /)
> /dev/sda10           8762        9855     8787523+  83  Linux (Kubuntu /home)
> /dev/sda11           9856       10949     8787523+  83  Linux (Debian Etch /)
> /dev/sda12          10950       11678     5855661   83  Linux (Etch /home)
> /dev/sda13          11679       12894     9767488+  83  Linux (Kubuntu HH /)
> /dev/sda14          12895       13988     8787523+  83  Linux (Kubuntu /home)
> 
> And the same for sdb, which is supposed to be just for data, but F9 is also 
> there at the mo.
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0000d51e
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1        3824    30716248+   b  W95 FAT32 (No OS )
> /dev/sdb2            3825        7471    29294527+   b  W95 FAT32 (No OS )
> /dev/sdb3            7472        8746    10241437+  83  Linux (Fedora 9 /)
> /dev/sdb4            8747       30401   173943787+   5  Extended
> /dev/sdb5            8747        9766     8193118+  83  Linux (Fedora 9 /home)
> 
> sdb1, and sdb2 have no Win OS on them, and just so that I can store data 
> easily from any of the Linux OS's easily, and retrieve it again to whichever 
> Linux OS happens to be booted at the time.

I can think of better fielsystems to use instead of FAT32 for that. 
Ext2 comes to mind first....

> Can't login to either KDE or Gnome on F9 though. Firstboot ran on the reboot, 
> entered user name, and password, then Firstboot decided to crash. The login 
> screen on a reboot shows my realname, and hovering the mouse over it says 
> logging in using my user name, which it shows. So I enter the password, but 
> nothing from Gnome, just back to the login. Trying a KDE session, it displays 
> an error box top left, saying something like "check installation". Anyway 
> that problem if I can't fix it is for a new thread.
> 
> Thanks for all the replies.
> 
> Nigel.
> 


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