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, 12:20 PM
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > --- 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
> >
> >
> >
> >   
>     Hi and your used to partitions so when you load a new
> version of 
> Ubuntu you should select to load in a manual way. This
> let's you use a 
> partition you made for it. See my conclusions on this list.
> 
> 
I did conclude that I should use the manual install.  Thanks for the verification.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net