Partitioning help!!!

[dsekavec]

Hey so i am farely new to linux so i decided to keep windows. So when i installed linux i had partitioned the drive with 87ish GB for windows and 30GB for linux.

So now i am trying to use gparted to repartition that 87GB so i can use it for linux

However, i am stuck with it now being showed as either unknown or unallocated, and when i try and format to ext4 or anything else it gives me this error - See the details for more information.

IMPORTANT
If you want support, you need to provide the saved details!
See [GPARTED DOCUMENTATION - SAVE_DETAILS for more information.

Now when i open up the details it says something about restarting before i can make any changes which i have done several times and i get the same error.


Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

[MonthOLDpickle]

A quick easy way would to be either boot from a liveCD (or LiveUSB) and gpart it in there.

Or try booting from yoru windows cd..deleting that partition..than cancelling out
and formatting again in linux..


are you doing this under root btw?

Also I don't know how it would affect your mbr but cosnidering you can rebuild it it should be no problemo (might even want to reformat entire HD and start over).

[dsekavec]

Yeah, i was hoping i wouldnt have to boot using a live usb or cd. As i no longer have the usb for it

Yes i think i am doing it under root, when i orginally booted i set my root account name to my name. So i am assuming when i log in to that account it is root right?
I also have tried using parted in terminal using su - (enter pass) then doing check (partition number) and it is unable to read anything

[MonthOLDpickle]

Go into terminal, su, enter pass and type either fdisk

fdisk -l will list


I am sure you can figure the rest out...you will be in root and paritioning via terminal.

[nujinini]

Hi and Welcome!

So now i am trying to use gparted to repartition that 87GB so i can use it for linux

If I understand it correctly, you want to repartition the 87GB which is Windows to make space for another Linux partition? Aside from the 30GB Linux you mentioned?

MonthOLDpickle's suggestion to boot from Live CD and Gpart it from there is what I also would do.

EDIT:
If you are using XP, you might want to go to Start>Run>type "cmd">then type "chkdsk /f" >restart. Sometimes, it would help if the windows partition is properly working, so to speak.

[dsekavec]

okay so i did the flist -l and this is what it shows.

root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdba26c3e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 11473 92156841 5 Extended
/dev/sda2 * 11474 11499 204800 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 11499 14593 24853441 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda5 1 11473 92156809+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/dm-0: 23.5 GB, 23467130880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2853 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 1979 MB, 1979711488 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 240 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table


It says /dev/sda5 is for linux but i dont see the free space in my filesystem.

I am in the process of downloading the file to make a live cd.. I just want to verify that doing it this way will not erase what i have on linux thus far..

nujinini - I cannot access windows anymore :-/ i think when i was playing with gparted i deleted what was on that section of the harddrive.