Partition issue

brenden1096 · 2011-02-26 14:30:49

I have installed Arch Linux on all my machines and now is runnning on my one other computer which has a 200GB HDD and when I run `df -h`:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 10M 172K 9.9M 2% /dev
/dev/sda3 7.4G 2.0G 5.4G 27% /
shm 468M 460K 468M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 99M 16M 79M 17% /boot
/dev/sda4 11G 42M 11G 1% /home

And this machine has 200GB total which I don't understand.

JokerBoy · 2011-02-26 14:42:52

cfdisk reports any free space?

brenden1096 · 2011-02-26 14:52:25

"FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive
Press any key to exit cfdisk"

brenden1096 · 2011-02-26 14:57:42

Can't I just boot into gparted and take whatever unused partition sizes and merge them with like my /home partition?

JokerBoy · 2011-02-26 14:59:50

sudo cfdisk /dev/sda

if it's ext*, you can.

brenden1096 · 2011-02-26 15:01:52

Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 20020396032 bytes, 20.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 2434

Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sda1 Boot Primary ext2 106.93
sda2 Primary swap 271.44
sda3 Primary jfs 7871.60
sda4 Primary jfs 11770.38

[ Bootable ] [ Delete ] [ Help ] [ Maximize ] [ Print ]
[ Quit ] [ Type ] [ Units ] [ Write ]

Quit program without writing partition table

JokerBoy · 2011-02-26 15:06:01

Size: 20020396032 bytes, 20.0 GB

20GB, not 200GB.

brenden1096 · 2011-02-26 15:07:36

Well the total HDD size is 200GB not 20GB and I used the auto partitioner this machine did have Windows 7 on it before I put Arch onto it.

Last edited by brenden1096 (2011-02-26 15:08:32)

gabeos · 2011-04-07 19:57:00

brenden1096, I think I have the same issue as you. I've been trying to install, but cfdisk hits the same FATAL ERROR that you got when I try to manually partition the drives. I reformatted all except my Win7 partition in GParted Live, and tried installing by specifying the partitions without formatting, but that failed as well. Did you ever come up with a solution for this?

Arch Linux

#1 2011-02-26 14:30:49

Partition issue

#2 2011-02-26 14:42:52

Re: Partition issue

#3 2011-02-26 14:52:25

Re: Partition issue

#4 2011-02-26 14:57:42

Re: Partition issue

#5 2011-02-26 14:59:50

Re: Partition issue

#6 2011-02-26 15:01:52

Re: Partition issue

#7 2011-02-26 15:06:01

Re: Partition issue

#8 2011-02-26 15:07:36

Re: Partition issue

#9 2011-04-07 19:57:00

Re: Partition issue

Board footer