This machine has an 80 GB drive. It originally had M$ XP Pro on it. I then
installed a prior version of ubuntu (it has been upgraded a time or two) but
still left some unpartitioned space on the drive.. Somewhere along the line
I started playing with Linux from scratch and added a 5GB partition for it.
I just used cfdisk to look at the drive and got the following:
cfdisk 2.12r
>
> Disk Drive: /dev/sda
> Size: 80026361856 bytes, 80.0 GB
> Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 9729
>
> Name Flags Part Type FS Type
> [Label] Size (MB)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> sda1 Boot Primary NTFS
> [] 31108.01
> sda2 Primary Linux ext3
> [/] 17116.81
> sda5 Logical Linux swap /
> Solaris 3002.23
> sda4 Primary Linux
> ext2 5000.98
>
> Unusable 23795.74
>
>
Any idea why that last 24 GB is showing as unusable? I seem to recall that
a drive can only have 4 primary partitions but am not sure that is true.
Even if it is, there are only 3 shown as primary. Maybe the Logical
partition counts as one of the 4 but can contain multiple "partitions"
within it?
--
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being
either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George F. Will
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