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I'll give you my problem first and then the context of my problem; so, if you choose, you can skip the lengthy intro and just get right to it. Also, if I happened to miss another thread, an article, or a section on the wiki during my extensive (I promise you it was extensive) googling, please tell me and I'll go look at it. You should know, someone out there did have the same problem and solved it by converting their table, a thing I want to avoid.
The problem you can (hopefully) help me with: does anyone know how to make the free space on my drive show up on my partition table while creating my Arch partitions without converting my gpt table to an mbr? This is during the installation.
Context:
During my first install of Arch, I ended up hating my configuration and in a moment of blind rage (well, not rage, but excessive frustration) I wiped it all. Then, I booted into Windows and deleted my Linux partition, thinking I could start over. Yes, I know my method of deleting was not the best idea (I've learned my lesson). Since then, I've cleaned up my UEFI menu, removed GRUB, etc. so I could, essentially, have the same initial conditions on my computer before my first time installing Arch.
So, getting ready to start all over again, I made sure I had unallocated memory set aside; I created a new usb boot; and I made sure I would have plenty of time in my day. I restarted my computer and booted into arch from my usb--perfect. However, when I go to actually create my linux partitions, the free space I have doesn't show up in my partition table.
Now, I've poked around in the deep, blue, sea for a solution to this problem, and there is one person who solved it by converting their gpt table to mbr. Now, here's where I make it difficult. I've already configured Arch using a gpt partition table, so I know it works; hence, I don't want to experience the hassle of converting it. So, my question is the following: does anyone know how to make the free space on my drive show up in my partition table without converting it?
In advance, thank you so much for your help!
Last edited by ErdosOrGauss (2017-06-26 05:50:38)
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Can you explain how you try to partition the hard disk?
The "fdisk" and "parted" tools that are included in the archlinux ISO are both capable of editing MBR and GPT partition tables (please see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … ning_tools). To see the partitions and the unallocated space on the disk execute the following command (replace "sda" if you not want to install archlinux on the first hard disk). It could also be helpful to post the output here.
# parted /dev/sda print freeedit: removed parenthesis from link
Last edited by spinnau (2017-06-22 21:11:23)
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I'm so sorry for the late response, I haven't been able to work on this until tonight.
Using your suggestion allowed me to proceed with the installation as usual. What I did was type your command
# parted /dev/sda print free
which gave me the positions of the free space in my partition table and I was able to carry out the installation. Thank you so much for your help! I don't know why using 'parted' didn't occur to me.
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