I have a corporate laptop with RH8.0 kernel 2.4.18-26.8.0. The corporate solution to provide full compatibility with the Windows apps it has developed, as well as other Windows users has been to use VMWare.
I had a dual boot with a 10GB partition for Windows and an 8 GB partition for Linux. Since I now want to move to the solution described above I re-installed Windows on a 4GB partition, and left 6GB free between this partition and the first Linux partition. I want to reclaim this space to use it later for the VMWARE machine. To be able to see it better I do an fdisk -l:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2432 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 510 4096543+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 1276 1288 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1289 2367 8667067+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 2368 2432 522112+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 2368 2432 522081 82 Linux swap
So you see, I have sectors (or cylinders, I never remember how it is) 511 to 1275 not assigned to any partition.
I tried partitionin with fdisk /dev/hda:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2432. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): n No free sectors available
No dice, it doesn't see the free sectors. Why? How can I reclaim the 6GB?
Should I re-install (not a very promising outlook for me :-( ).
Thanks for your help,
Eduardo.
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