[ale] GParted & unallocated space

[Jim Philips]

That's my problem. HP, in its wisdom, decided that the disk needed four
primary partitions to do all of the crap they find necessary. Aside from the
main partition, I have Tools, System and Recovery. I'm about ready to create
a recovery disk and just kill the Recovery partition.

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:

> How many primary partitions are currently on the disk? You can only have
> 4 primary partitions on a disk.
>
>
> On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 21:03 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
> > I can't create a partition in that space either. Fedora says there is
> > no space (always shows it as 0 megabytes). Ubuntu also refuses to
> > allow me to do anything with the space, flagging it as "unusable".
> > I've been installing Linux off and on for fifteen years. This is just
> > something I haven't encountered before.
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com>
> > wrote:
> >         On 09/25/2010 09:00 PM, Jim Philips wrote:
> >         > Let me get this straight: Are you saying Ubuntu installed to
> >         unallocated
> >         > space without formatting? I couldn't install, because
> >         GParted refused to
> >         > format that space.
> >
> >
> >         Again, you can't format unallocated space. You have to create
> >         a
> >         partition, then format the partition. Can you create a new
> >         partition? If
> >         not, how many partitions are there already?
> >
> >         --
> >         All the best,
> >         Brian Pitts
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