Hidden partition

[Mustafa Abbasi]

i am no expert and probably wrong 
but maybe you should try to checks if your primary partition limit (4) has 
been reached.
if do try changing one of the primary partions to logical ones.

On 7/16/05, Myron Slover <tewlmanster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I set up my harddrive with Fedoracore4 and Ubuntu. I have a 80 gig hd.
> I set them up with each an individual home partition,root partition,
> and boot. They share swap.
> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155114 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> 
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 406 204592+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 407 30882 15359904 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 30883 51199 10239768 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 51200 102108 25658136 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 51200 53280 1048792+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/hda6 53281 53668 195520+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 53669 73044 9765472+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 73045 102108 14648224+ 83 Linux
> Qparted lists dev/hda9 as being a hidden partition. I saved 25 gigs to
> install another Linux distro. I cannot use the 25 gigs I saved because
> it is flagged as hidden. I installed fc4 first and then Ubuntu. Ubuntu
> labeled the 25 gigs as hidden. I guess I need to learn more about
> formatting hardrives. How do I flag the partition as not hidden?
> Thanks,
> Myron Slover
> 
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