Partition problem, solved
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
Sat Oct 25 19:37:50 UTC 2008
--- 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
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