Ubuntu Linux - Split Thread

[katzdvd]

Never mind! I think I fixed it - unmounted drives on desktop & it seems to have worked! Will keep you updated

[katzdvd]

Did have another one for you; In creating the "home" partition, is that created as a "primary partition?" If you change it to extended, you cannot select the file system type?

[anonymez]

Select Primary Partition.

[katzdvd]

I did that; Now I still have 162 gb unallocated space, that I want to use for data partition, but when I try, I am getting message that it is not possible to create more than 4 primary partitions.

[anonymez]

Set the home partition to extended, should be ext3. Then you should be able to set the Data to Primary.

[katzdvd]

Set the home partition to extended.

I tried that, & the partition was "unallocated". I was fooling around some more, & well, I did a good one now....Somehow, I just now wiped the entire drive, windows & all...

Now I am truly starting from a clean slate. Not exactly what I had in mind, but at least I didn't lose anything important on windows, just wasting alot of time...

[Chewy]

looks like the penguin killed the leopard seal

[katzdvd]

On the desktop, the drive is still showing up, & windows is still in there. Does that mean that windows is still in place, even though GParted shows it as being erased?

[katzdvd]

looks like the penguin killed the leopard seal

Died long ago, just too stupid to realize it yet! (or maybe it's just the nerves, final body impulses, shutting down)

[anonymez]

Did you hit apply? GParted will not make any changes to your drive till you do so; if you did not, just close GParted and run it again. As with any partitioning tool, be very careful and double-check what you're doing.

[katzdvd]

Did you hit apply?

Oh you bet! I don't believe in doing anything halfway!

As with any partitioning tool, be very careful and double-check what you're doing.

Guess it's a good thing I don't operate on people for a living!

[anonymez]

LOL, same thing happened to me once... except with XP's partition tool. Just be glad you did not lose any important data.

[katzdvd]

anony - try as I might, I cannot get a 4th partition created.

sda1 - windows
sda2 - root
sda3 - linux swap
sda4/5 - created as extended partition (home)

I cannot get the remaining space to partition as a data partition. If I do not create the extended partition, that is when I get the "no more than 4 primary" partitions message.

It seems I cannot do it either way, no way no how can I create another partition. Where am I going wrong on this?

[anonymez]

Make it so:

sda1 - Windows (primary)
sda2 - root (primary) (or logical? can't remember)
sda3 - home (extended)
sda4 - swap
sda5 - Data (primary)

If you're having trouble, just run the installer and it should guide you through the partitioning process.

A brief explanation of the two types:

3.3. Primary Partitions

The number of partitions on an Intel-based system was limited from the very beginning: The original partition table was installed as part of the boot sector and held space for only four partition entries. These partitions are now called primary partitions.

3.4. Logical Partitions

One primary partition of a hard drive may be subpartitioned. These are logical partitions. This effectively allows us to skirt the historical four partition limitation.

The primary partition used to house the logical partitions is called an extended partition and it has its own file system type (0x05). Unlike primary partitions, logical partitions must be contiguous. Each logical partition contains a pointer to the next logical partition, which implies that the number of logical partitions is unlimited. However, linux imposes limits on the total number of any type of prtition on a drive, so this effectively limits the number of logical partitions. This is at most 15 partitions total on an SCSI disk and 63 total on an IDE disk.

[katzdvd]

The farther I go with this, the dumber I seem to be getting Did what you said, still can't get it done, same results as post 238. Decided to partition thru the installer instead of GParted, but using that, I can't get the option to create any of the partitions as NTFS.

Plus, it wants to create a root partition first before windows, which I guess doesn't matter, but I am still unable to create any partitions as NTFS using the install method.

I guess my best shot at this is to run GParted again & be satisfied with the way I had it before, omitting the Home partition. I could create that at a later time, if I finally figure out how, I suppose.