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LordZeus

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Registered: 2022-03-21

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Issues with installing arch on a seperate drive

I am trying to dualboot arch. I want to keep windows for now, and dualboot arch, mainly because of games, but that's besides the point.

I have a 500gb SSD which is my windows boot drive, with an extra 2TB HDD as extra storage. I wanted to shrink the drive space about 200gb for arch, and in that free space, install arch. So in disk manager in windows, I shrinked the HDD by 200gb, creating free space on the second drive.

When I run the command cfdisk, it takes me to /dev/sda. As expected, but for whatever reason, the drives are listed as

/dev/sda1 size:100m id:7 type:HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 size:465.1G id:7 type:HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 size:563M id:27 type:Hidden NTFS WinRE

I was expecting to see what partitions were efi and such also, but this confuses me. I'm fine with having a new efi partition on the second drive, but just something I wanted to mention.

Back to what I need help on:

I ran the command lsblk, and I can see the 2TB HDD, but cfdisk /dev/sdb (the drive itself) only shows the drive as a whole, rather than showing the free space. (Like 1.8T and 200G)

Why can't I see the free space so I can make partitions for arch to install it on?

Thanks!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,285

Re: Issues with installing arch on a seperate drive

How sure are you there should be a partition for that? Post the full output of lsblk -f https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services