[ale] GParted & unallocated space

mute wonder mutewonder at gmail.com
Sun Sep 26 16:37:17 EDT 2010


I just read today about a bug in Ubuntu 9.x's GParted working with extended
partitions.  Can you try a current release of a rescue live CD?  Should have
any bugfixed Gparted, plus those updates regarding CHS limits.  In case the
whole disk got thrashed, some other rescue utilities--testdisk, whatever
else--would be pretty handy ;)

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>wrote:

> I tried again to see if things would work for me the way they did for you.
> No luck. The newly freed space was listed as "unusable". I could neither
> format it nor set a mount point and if I tried to move forward, the
> installation complained there was no mount point.
>
> I also tried installing FC13. FC13's partitioning program never
> successfully shrank sda2, where Windows resides. It saw all partitions as 0
> megabytes. I'm beginning to feel really screwed here.
>
>
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