how to create a new partition for installing another os?
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From: hadi motamedi on 10 Aug 2010 02:20 Dear All My Debian server shows three primary partitions and one extended partition but when I try to add a new partition via fdisk for installing another os it is returning as 'no free sectors available' . It seems that I have a vast amount of free space on my disk so please let me know why I cannot add a partition ? Thank you
From: Alain Baeckeroot on 10 Aug 2010 03:50 Le 10/08/2010 à 08:12, hadi motamedi a écrit : > Dear All > My Debian server shows three primary partitions and one extended partition > but when I try to add a new partition via fdisk for installing another os it > is returning as 'no free sectors available' . It seems that I have a vast > amount of free space on my disk so please let me know why I cannot add a > partition ? > Thank you > what is displayed with sfdisk -l or sfdisk -l /dev/yourdevice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201008100928.28861.alain.baeckeroot(a)laposte.net
From: Camaleón on 10 Aug 2010 04:00 On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:42:23 +0430, hadi motamedi wrote: > My Debian server shows three primary partitions and one extended > partition but when I try to add a new partition via fdisk for installing > another os it is returning as 'no free sectors available' . It seems > that I have a vast amount of free space on my disk so please let me know > why I cannot add a partition ? Better than "fdisk", use "cfdisk" or "gparted" to create partitions. Show us what is the output of "fdisk -l". Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.08.10.07.49.55(a)gmail.com
From: hadi motamedi on 10 Aug 2010 05:20 On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Camaleón <noelamac(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Better than "fdisk", use "cfdisk" or "gparted" to create partitions. > > Show us what is the output of "fdisk -l". > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > Please find below the output of 'fdisk -l' : #fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes /dev/sda1 * 1 15 120456 83 Linux /dev/sda2 16 1320 10482412+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 1321 1957 5116702 83 Linux /dev/sda4 1958 30401 228476430 5 Extended /dev/sda5 1958 2339 3068383 83 Linux /dev/sda6 2340 30401 225407983 83 Linux
From: Camaleón on 10 Aug 2010 06:30 On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:41:52 +0430, hadi motamedi wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Better than "fdisk", use "cfdisk" or "gparted" to create partitions. >> >> Show us what is the output of "fdisk -l". >> > Please find below the output of 'fdisk -l' : > #fdisk -l /dev/sda > Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, > 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > /dev/sda1 * 1 15 120456 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 16 1320 10482412+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris ^^^^^^^^ Am I reading that right? Do you have a 10 GiB swap? :-? > /dev/sda3 1321 1957 5116702 83 Linux > /dev/sda4 1958 30401 228476430 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 1958 2339 3068383 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 2340 30401 225407983 83 Linux So, you have 2 logical partitions: sda5 (3 GiB) and sda6 (225 GiB) and I guess you want to "split/resize" sda6 into smaller ones (sda7, sda8...). You can do it with "gparted" (or cfdisk) but: 1/ Make a copy of the data on it (if any) before making any change. 2/ You have to work offline, the volume you are splitting cannot be mounted. You can manually unmount it or just use a Live medium and make the partitions from there. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.08.10.10.27.36(a)gmail.com
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