ubantuwannabe
August 12th, 2009, 01:53 AM
Dear all,
I have a 320G hard disk.
Here the original partition:
first partition ntfs windows xp (occupies almost 318G if I din remember wrongly)
second partition fat32 for recovery partition (occupies 2G for recovery options)
I wanted to achieve the following:
first partition ntfs to install windows xp
second partition fat32 for recovery partition
third partition ubuntu 8.10
first I defrag the first partition.
next I resize the partition during the installation of ubuntu 8.10
using the first option guided resize option as shown in http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18301624/screenshot_fail.png.
(Note the above is not my screenshot, but it is to show a clearer picture of what I did)
I did not 'adjust the size' as in adjust the bar, I just choose whatever the disk partitioned suggested:
first partition ntfs 40G
second partition fat32 this is a recovery partition
third partition is supposed to be 280G
but after resizing I discover that the ntfs partition shrinks to 11G and no more free space, why does this happen?
doordie@compaqnc4400:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 271G 2.2G 255G 1% /
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1.5G 104K 1.5G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.5G 2.8M 1.5G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.5G 104K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1.5G 2.0M 1.5G 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
doordie@compaqnc4400:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for doordie:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x95aa95aa
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1226 9847813+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 38209 38913 5654848+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 1227 38208 297057915 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1227 37077 287973126 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 37078 38208 9084726 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
I have a 320G hard disk.
Here the original partition:
first partition ntfs windows xp (occupies almost 318G if I din remember wrongly)
second partition fat32 for recovery partition (occupies 2G for recovery options)
I wanted to achieve the following:
first partition ntfs to install windows xp
second partition fat32 for recovery partition
third partition ubuntu 8.10
first I defrag the first partition.
next I resize the partition during the installation of ubuntu 8.10
using the first option guided resize option as shown in http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18301624/screenshot_fail.png.
(Note the above is not my screenshot, but it is to show a clearer picture of what I did)
I did not 'adjust the size' as in adjust the bar, I just choose whatever the disk partitioned suggested:
first partition ntfs 40G
second partition fat32 this is a recovery partition
third partition is supposed to be 280G
but after resizing I discover that the ntfs partition shrinks to 11G and no more free space, why does this happen?
doordie@compaqnc4400:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 271G 2.2G 255G 1% /
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1.5G 104K 1.5G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.5G 2.8M 1.5G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.5G 104K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1.5G 2.0M 1.5G 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
doordie@compaqnc4400:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for doordie:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x95aa95aa
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1226 9847813+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 38209 38913 5654848+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 1227 38208 297057915 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1227 37077 287973126 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 37078 38208 9084726 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order