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ubuntu 9.10 partition issue - unusable space

Hi

Im trying to install ubuntu 9.10 on my netbook. The drive has already been partitioned from factory, 160gb - 80gb windows xp - 80gb empty that i have deleted trying to create a partition for ubuntu

i have selected manual partition after unetbootin it (think this is 4th step), and deleted 77gb of space. Now the problem is that when i select 25gb for the "/" ubuntu system it carries out a process and states that its partitioned it for ubuntu.

Once that is done the remainder 50gb becomes UNUSABLE and i cant partition again for swap or home!

ive tried a number of different things.
Any suggestions to fix this are welcome!

Welcome to LQ eeeBu!

Now, your trying to install 9.10 via Unetbootin?

Please be more descriptive about the install process and tell us about your hardware, ram,etc

thanks :)

i thought i was being descriptive, anyway i'll try to explain it as well as i can.
Its got a 1.66ghz intel atom, 1gb RAM, 160 gb HD (total).

it came from the factory in two partitions, 80gb xp and 80gb free (NTFS format)

ive got a flash stick with ubuntu and ive booted it, tried to installed it, went until the step about partitioning and got stuck.

After selecting manual partition, i deleted the other 80gb that was free in NTFS format and now its shown as "Free space". i then selected 25gb out of that free space and select it to have the ubunutu system on (thats the "/" i think).

after that i cant use the rest of the 50gb!

im trying to partition 80gb (77gb to be precise) as such:

25gb /
2 gb swap
1gb boot
45gb /home

i dont know why i cant add more than one partition....

thanks in advance

your limited to 4 primary partitions, so you need to make a extended and then make logical partitions in that

so...you gotta delete whatever is empty or just start over completely
you have a 160GB drive
with xp + the partitiions you wanna make for ubuntu = 5
so, you either got to make a extended partition
with Logical partitions in that
or get rid of the /boot and /home partitions
as they are not a necessity
I usually put everything under /

this is what My partition layout would be

80GB XP NTFS?
75GB Ubuntu EXT3 or EXT4
2GB swap

If you want more partitions; change that to

80GB XP NTFS primary
25GB / ext3 or ext4 primary
49GB Extended
45GB /Home ext3 or ext4 logical
1GB /boot ext3 or ext4 logical
2GB /swap logical

Quote:

Originally Posted by linus72 (Post 3764913)

80GB XP NTFS?
75GB Ubuntu EXT3 or EXT4
2GB swap

Is there a difference if i have /home or have everything in / ?

ive tried that, you see the i currently have 80 gb NFTS

when i add (whilst installing ubuntu) 25gb or even 75gb for / i cant add an additional 2gb for the /swap
it only allows me to add one partition.

the rest of the free space becomes UNUSED and i cant use that space to add /swap or anything else :/

well; I have like 15-20+ distros on this PC at any time
so I couldn't have a /home, and whatever without having alot of issues

I just put everything under / when I install any distro
you can see to the left some of them<

heres my fdisk -l for this PC
note that its a mess and not a good example:)

Code:

Disk /dev/sda: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00061093



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sda1  *          1          79      634536  83  Linux

/dev/sda2            9869      20023    81570037+  5  Extended

/dev/sda3              80        4895    38684520  83  Linux

/dev/sda4            4896        9868    39945622+  83  Linux

/dev/sda5          19741      20023    2273166  82  Linux swap / Solaris

/dev/sda6            9869      14877    40234729+  83  Linux

/dev/sda7          14878      15750    7012341  83  Linux

/dev/sda8          17407      19740    18747823+  83  Linux

/dev/sda9          15751      17406    13301788+  83  Linux



Partition table entries are not in disk order



Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x000374f1



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sdb1              1        9320    74862868+  83  Linux

/dev/sdb2  *        9321        9729    3285292+  83  Linux

Note that sda3 & beyond are all logical partitions within the extended partition
you can have many logical partitions inside a extended partition

so, if your just gonna install Ubuntu and you want /home, etc you gotta redo
your 80GB you initially had for ubuntu

or just make it so

80GB XP NTFS?
75GB Ubuntu EXT3 or EXT4
2GB swap

lol that looks like gibberish to me :P

ive just rebooted ubuntu from the usb stick and feel like such an eeeediot now!

ive noticed that i do have 5 partitions and according to your previous post ive reached the maximum.

heres what ive got:

sda1 ntfs 77375mb
sda2 ext4 25004mb
unusable 52362mb
sda3 fat32 5247mb
sda4 49mb

do i need fat 32?....well does XP need it?

could i maybe do it like this:

sda1 (leave it the same)
sda2 75
sda3 2 /swap
sda4 fat32
sda5 (leave it the same if necessary)

thanks linus 72 for your patience

problem sorted! :D

deleted the free space that was probably created by XP
so i was left with sda1 & sda3

then i created a sda2 for / and another sda4 for swap

thanks to linus!

no doubt
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