[ale] GParted & unallocated space

[Tim Watts]

Idiots! That's a bit like selling a car with non-reversible lug nuts.

On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 07:17 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
> That's my problem. HP, in its wisdom, decided that the disk needed
> four primary partitions to do all of the crap they find necessary.
> Aside from the main partition, I have Tools, System and Recovery. I'm
> about ready to create a recovery disk and just kill the Recovery
> partition.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org>
> wrote:
>         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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