On Wed 14 Jun 2017 at 21:43:43 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> On 06/14/2017 07:00 PM, David DLC wrote:
> >http://imgur.com/a/o83Qd
>
> It looks like your 500GB drive uses the GPT partitioning scheme, and the
> Windows C:\ file system corresponds to partition Number 4. You also
> have partition numbers 5 (867 MB) and 6 (21,705 MB), and then a little
> free space (~4 MB).
>
>
> When you shrank the C:\ file system and partition 4, it opened a hole
> between partition numbers 4 and 5. While this is listed as "Free Space"
> by parted, I believe it is inaccessible to partitioning tools because,
> by convention (de facto standard?), partitions have monotonically
> increasing sector numbers -- e.g. the First and Last LBA's of partition
> 4 must be greater than the LBA's for partition 3 and less than the LBA's
> for partition 5. Therefore, the tools won't create a partition 7 that
> lies between partitions 4 and 5.
Never heard of this standard. Sounds like a broken tool.
> Theoretically, it should be possible to delete the partition table
> entries for partitions 5 and 6, and then create new entries for
> partitions 5, 6, and 7 using the exact sector numbers so that the new
> partition 5 lines up with the free space, the new partition 6 lines up
> with the old partition 5, and the new partition 7 lines up with the old
> partition 6. But you would need to disconnect whatever in the firmware
> and/or Windows uses partitions 5 and 6 beforehand, and then
> reconnect them to partitions 6 and 7 afterwards. Then, once you install
> Debian in new partition 5, you'll need to run the multi-boot bootloader
> gauntlet.
All sounds very dangerous to me. If you feel the need to have
the numbers in sequential order, just type "s" in a tool like gdisk:
# gdisk /dev/sdb
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 3893247 sectors, 1.9 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 97E6AEEE-E528-43A1-817A-66BE750CF257
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 3893213
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 3862460 sectors (1.8 GiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
2 8192 34815 13.0 MiB AF00 Apple HFS/HFS+
3 4096 6143 1024.0 KiB FB00 VMWare VMFS
5 2048 4095 1024.0 KiB 8300 Linux filesystem
Command (? for help): s
You may need to edit /etc/fstab and/or your boot loader configuration!
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 3893247 sectors, 1.9 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 97E6AEEE-E528-43A1-817A-66BE750CF257
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 3893213
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 3862460 sectors (1.8 GiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 4095 1024.0 KiB 8300 Linux filesystem
2 4096 6143 1024.0 KiB FB00 VMWare VMFS
3 8192 34815 13.0 MiB AF00 Apple HFS/HFS+
Command (? for help): w
Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING
PARTITIONS!!
Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y
OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/sdb.
The operation has completed successfully.
# gdisk /dev/sdb
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 3893247 sectors, 1.9 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 97E6AEEE-E528-43A1-817A-66BE750CF257
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 3893213
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 3862460 sectors (1.8 GiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 4095 1024.0 KiB 8300 Linux filesystem
2 4096 6143 1024.0 KiB FB00 VMWare VMFS
3 8192 34815 13.0 MiB AF00 Apple HFS/HFS+
Command (? for help): n
Partition number (4-128, default 4): 57
First sector (34-3893213, default = 34816) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 6144
Last sector (6144-8191, default = 8191) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 8191
Current type is 'Linux filesystem'
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): bf00
Changed type of partition to 'Solaris root'
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 3893247 sectors, 1.9 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 97E6AEEE-E528-43A1-817A-66BE750CF257
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 3893213
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 3860412 sectors (1.8 GiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 4095 1024.0 KiB 8300 Linux filesystem
2 4096 6143 1024.0 KiB FB00 VMWare VMFS
3 8192 34815 13.0 MiB AF00 Apple HFS/HFS+
57 6144 8191 1024.0 KiB BF00 Solaris root
Command (? for help): s
You may need to edit /etc/fstab and/or your boot loader configuration!
Command (? for help): w
Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING
PARTITIONS!!
Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y
OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/sdb.
The operation has completed successfully.
# gdisk /dev/sdb
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 3893247 sectors, 1.9 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 97E6AEEE-E528-43A1-817A-66BE750CF257
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 3893213
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 3860412 sectors (1.8 GiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 4095 1024.0 KiB 8300 Linux filesystem
2 4096 6143 1024.0 KiB FB00 VMWare VMFS
3 6144 8191 1024.0 KiB BF00 Solaris root
4 8192 34815 13.0 MiB AF00 Apple HFS/HFS+
Command (? for help):
Cheers,
David.
