Re: fdisk limited?

I'm not really sure, but, I can tell you that it is just the vanilla
fdisk, I didn't make any customizations, changes, or patches; so, you
could try to look at the source or documentation.  Does anyone else
know?  -Tom

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Stephane Boireau wrote:

> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:20:33 +0200
> From: Stephane Boireau <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] fdisk limited?
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if there are limitations to fdisk (tested with
> tomsrtbt1.7.361 (fdisk v2.8) and tomsrtbt2.0.103 (fdisj v2.11qto)):
>
> It tells me that I can't create another partition:
> No free sectors available
>
> But there are 9Go left at the end of the disk (and from mdk9.1 with diskdrake
> I can create new partitions).
>
> The situation is (a 60Go disk: /dev/hda) with mdk9.1 and w95:
> Sectors:
> 1-255		/dev/hda1	win_c
> 256-6107		/dev/hda2	extended fat32 partition
>
> 256-510		/dev/hda5	win_d
> 511-512		/dev/hda3	/boot
> 513-523		/dev/hda6
> 524-573		/dev/hda4	SWAP
> 574-1196		/dev/hda9	/
> 1197-1812	/dev/hda10	/var
> 1813-2484	/dev/hda11	/usr
> 2485-3071	/dev/hda7	win_e
> 3072-3719	/dev/hda12	/home
> 3720-4205	/dev/hda8
> 4206-4571	/dev/hda13
> 4572-6107	/dev/hda14	/home/reserve
>
> Partitions not commented contain knoppix installation.
>
> I did many tests with this disk.
> It explains why partitions are the way they are.
>
> What could explain the message I get?
>
> Thank you for your explainations...
> --
> Stephane Boireau
> Personne ressource TICE du collège Le Hameau à Bernay (27)
>
>