[ILUG] Partitioning trouble

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:55:15PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Joe Fitzsimons thought:
> I've just resized my windows partition with YAST in Suse 9.3, and I want to 
> extend my /home and /usr partitions into that space. Unfortunately I seem to 
> have been left with space in the middle that I can't access. Any ideas what 
> is going on?
> 
> (parted) print
> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-76319.085 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.031  33805.800  primary   ntfs        type=07

This space here?

> 2      60000.579  63318.691  primary   ext3        boot, type=83
> 3      63318.691  70315.751  primary   ext3        type=83
> 4      70315.752  76316.594  extended              type=05
> 5      70315.783  75312.531  logical   ext3        type=83
> 6      75312.562  76308.750  logical   linux-swap  type=82
> 
> 
> When I try to add a new partition I am only allowed to start at the very last 
> cylinder.

It looks to me like you've used up all of the 4 primary/extended
partitions possible on the disk.  If you want to use the space between
partitions 1 and 2, best bet is to delete partition 2 and remake it using
all the space.  After you've moved the contents of partition 2 into /boot
on your root partition that is...
 
Conor
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