[ale] GParted & unallocated space

[Tim Watts]

How many primary partitions are currently on the disk? You can only have
4 primary partitions on a disk.


On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 21:03 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
> I can't create a partition in that space either. Fedora says there is
> no space (always shows it as 0 megabytes). Ubuntu also refuses to
> allow me to do anything with the space, flagging it as "unusable".
> I've been installing Linux off and on for fifteen years. This is just
> something I haven't encountered before.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com>
> wrote:
>         On 09/25/2010 09:00 PM, Jim Philips wrote:
>         > Let me get this straight: Are you saying Ubuntu installed to
>         unallocated
>         > space without formatting? I couldn't install, because
>         GParted refused to
>         > format that space.
>         
>         
>         Again, you can't format unallocated space. You have to create
>         a
>         partition, then format the partition. Can you create a new
>         partition? If
>         not, how many partitions are there already?
>         
>         --
>         All the best,
>         Brian Pitts
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