Partition problem, solved

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sat, 10/25/08, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:

> From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
> Subject: Re: Partition problem, solved
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 11:27 AM
> Rashkae wrote:
> > Mario Vukelic wrote:
> >   
> >> On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 11:18 -0400, Rashkae wrote:
> >>     
<Big Snip>

> > However, I must stress, I'm only nitckpicking
> details as I am
> > psychotically compelled to do.  My official
> suggestion, in this case, is
> > to boot from a rescue cd, or anything else that will
> give you a decent
> > GUI, and use gparted / qtparted to do the deed.
> >
> >   
>     Well here is what happened:
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00056ea5
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id 
> System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1         974     7823623+  83 
> Linux
> /dev/sdb2             975        1948     7823655   83 
> Linux
> /dev/sdb3            1949        2192     1959930   82 
> Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sdb4            2193       19457   138681112+   5 
> Extended
> /dev/sdb5            2193        4625    19543041   83 
> Linux
> /dev/sdb6            4626        5598     7815591   83 
> Linux
> karl at karl-hardy:~$
> 
> This is exactly what I wanted and I did it using gparted on
> the Hardy 
> LiveCD. This gparted is the one you see when your loading
> Hardy 
> manually. In anycase I told it to make /dev/sdb4 as large
> as possible 
> and it DID!
> Karl
> 
Been following this thread with interest wanting to understand just why Karl's extented partition didn't include all space to the end of the disk as mine does.  Karl, glad you were able to fix the trouble, but can you explain just what the messages were and just what you selected from the gparted menu gui. I have added with gparted several 50 GB partitions 
(extended) on my 500 GB HDD and am running Hardy 64 bit from one of them now. But, I'm always uncertain just how to do things re partitions and have had problems getting a new install to go on the partition I want it to; should have selected manual install, I guess. So, any more detail you can add will be helpful.  Thanks.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net