Hi
I was trying to install Fedora 11 beta from live usb on my disc which has 5 existing partitions and a free space of 4.2 GB. But when I try to make new partition, it says not enough disc space. Even use free space to create layout wont work. One thing that can be noted that, the free space is before the extended partition. Could this be a problem. If I remember correctly, I faced a similar problem with I even tried to delete the swap partition to make some space but the installer exited with an unhandled exception. The debug info is huge and so am not pasting it here.
Regards
2009/4/10 Rangeen Basu sherry151@gmail.com
Hi
I was trying to install Fedora 11 beta from live usb on my disc which has 5 existing partitions and a free space of 4.2 GB. But when I try to make new partition, it says not enough disc space. Even use free space to create layout wont work. One thing that can be noted that, the free space is before the extended partition. Could this be a problem. If I remember correctly, I faced a similar problem with I even tried to delete the swap partition to make some space but the installer exited with an unhandled exception. The debug info is huge and so am not pasting it here.
Regards
Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury Fedora Ambassador sherry151@gmail.com
how many primary partitions do you have?
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:10 PM, cornel panceac cpanceac@gmail.com wrote:
how many primary partitions do you have?
I have 3 primary partitions and moreover I wasn't trying to make a new primary partition, so the limit of 4 primaries should not create a problem. I think that it has got something to do with the free space being before extended partitons.
Regards
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 21:48 +0600, Rangeen Basu wrote:
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:10 PM, cornel panceac cpanceac@gmail.com wrote:
how many primary partitions do you have?
I have 3 primary partitions and moreover I wasn't trying to make a new primary partition, so the limit of 4 primaries should not create a problem. I think that it has got something to do with the free space being before extended partitons.
---- sounds more like the case where you have 3 primary partitions + 1 extended partition which itself is also a primary partition and thus, you reached the limit.
Craig
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
sounds more like the case where you have 3 primary partitions + 1 extended partition which itself is also a primary partition and thus, you reached the limit.
Thanks Craig for the reply. I realised this after I sent the mail and am feeling stupid right now. So I guess nothing can be done without destroying one partition or is there any other way. Is there anyway that might allow me to add the new partition into the extended group. I know that this is not the support channel but since the thread has already reached this far, I am asking this question here.
Thanks
2009/4/10 Rangeen Basu sherry151@gmail.com
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
sounds more like the case where you have 3 primary partitions + 1
extended partition which itself is also a primary partition and thus, you reached the limit.
Thanks Craig for the reply. I realised this after I sent the mail and am feeling stupid right now. So I guess nothing can be done without destroying one partition or is there any other way. Is there anyway that might allow me to add the new partition into the extended group. I know that this is not the support channel but since the thread has already reached this far, I am asking this question here.
you can use "parted magic" live cd (recommended) or any other live cd wich has gparted on it (like system rescue cd) to resize the extended partition, this way the new partition will be type "logical", built inside the extended one.
but, of course, you'll better backup your data first.
Thanks
Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury Fedora Ambassador sherry151@gmail.com
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2009/4/10 cornel panceac cpanceac@gmail.com
2009/4/10 Rangeen Basu sherry151@gmail.com
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
sounds more like the case where you have 3 primary partitions + 1
extended partition which itself is also a primary partition and thus, you reached the limit.
Thanks Craig for the reply. I realised this after I sent the mail and am feeling stupid right now. So I guess nothing can be done without destroying one partition or is there any other way. Is there anyway that might allow me to add the new partition into the extended group. I know that this is not the support channel but since the thread has already reached this far, I am asking this question here.
you can use "parted magic" live cd (recommended) or any other live cd wich has gparted on it (like system rescue cd) to resize the extended partition, this way the new partition will be type "logical", built inside the extended one.
see
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/resize/resizing.htm
but, of course, you'll better backup your data first.
Thanks
Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury Fedora Ambassador sherry151@gmail.com
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