Hidden partition
Ed Cogburn
edcogburn at hotpop.com
Fri Jul 22 17:24:28 UTC 2005
Ed Fletcher wrote:
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> Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
>> 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
>> <mailto: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
>
> You have three primary partitions so that's not the problem. I
> haven't run into anything like a hidden partition before,
I've seen it. I didn't see the beginning of this thread, but this looks to
me as if the person declared the extended partition as not including the
rest of the hard drive. You can have only 4 "real" partitions and only one
them can be an "extended" partition (logical partitions exist only inside
an extended partition), so if you want access to all of the hard drive,
*all* of the rest of the hard drive must be in that extended partition if
you're going to use more than 4 partitions. In this case "hidden" means
inaccessible, because hda9 is merely the remainder of the disk thats not
inside a physical partition, and is thus unusable. To do this right, they
need to delete back to hda4, then redeclare their extended partition (hda4)
as occupying all the remaining space of the drive. The hda9 space will now
be inside the extended partition and usable.
At least that's my story, an' I'm stickin' too it! :)
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