[ale] GParted & unallocated space

Jim Philips briarpatch.jim at gmail.com
Mon Sep 27 17:02:05 EDT 2010


I have found a few pages that relate to the problem. I intend to try this
one tonight:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/02/29/how-to-delete-and-remove-recovery-partition-in-hp-computer/

I'll report on the outcome.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Richard Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org>wrote:

>  I have to say that this thread has been the most enlightening especially
> from a support standpoint.  That's one thing I love about playing in this
> sandbox!
>
> Please let us know how it goes for the installation will ya Jim?  I'm sure
> all will go well in the end!  What's most interesting is that HP seems to
> have made the decision for you that you'll not be installing an OS in
> tandem.  That (in some ways) says certain things about HP (not good IMHO)
> and especially forces the typical end-user into a Windows only mode of
> thinking even more.
>
> Great call on suggesting to look at the number of primary partitions Tim!
> I had already thought about it but assumed this was a known factor already
> thus said nothing about it...again...very enlightening from a support
> standpoint!    ---R
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com<Jim%20Kinney%20%3cjim.kinney at gmail.com%3e>
> >
> *Reply-to*: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
> *To*: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org<Atlanta%20Linux%20Enthusiasts%20-%20Yes%21%20We%20run%20Linux%21%20%3cale at ale.org%3e>
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> *Subject*: Re: [ale] GParted & unallocated space
> *Date*: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:22:55 -0400
>
> It came with windows. why would anyone want anything different? us
> corporate types took your money and sold you what we wanted to you to buy.
> it worked just fine. if it doesn't then you need to spend more money with us
> to make it even better.
>
>
> </snark>
>
>
> In general, it's a good idea to plan on blowing away the "restore"
> partition for any dual-boot setup. It can't be used to "restore
> functionality" to the machine anyway. Make a restore disk set instead so you
> have original winders garbage and the extra bloatware it shipped with parked
> elsewhere. Then _you_ have control of the drive structure..
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:
>
> Idiots! That's a bit like selling a car with non-reversible lug nuts.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 07:17 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
> > 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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