driven1
May 25th, 2011, 02:21 PM
Hello,
I have the problem that gparted cannot read the partition tables. I want to use some free space to install Natty, but the installer only sees the entire hard disk. I would also like to eliminate one of the two swap disks. I was looking at this tutorial in the forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1192598) on how to use sfdisk but the thread appears to be inactive. I would appreciate some advice before I start making modifications. I have an XP primary partition. In the extended partition I have a 2.1gb XP backup file, then 76 gb that I use for shared storage between Linux Mint and XP, I have 40 gb allocated for Mint, 8gb unallocated, and two swap disks 1.1gb and 1.8gb. I need to fix this so I can use gparted. Thanks.
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
omitting empty partition (10)
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9358c633
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3824 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3825 19458 125573737+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 3825 4085 2096451 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 4086 13287 73907476 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 19327 19458 1049600 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 14262 19113 38964224 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 19113 19327 1714176 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
here are the contents of the current PT.txt
# partition table of /dev/sda
unit: sectors
/dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 61432497, Id= 7, bootable
/dev/sda2 : start= 61432621, size=251147475, Id= f
/dev/sda3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/sda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/sda5 : start= 61432623, size= 4192902, Id= 7
/dev/sda6 : start= 65625588, size=147814952, Id= 7
/dev/sda7 : start=310480896, size= 2099200, Id=82
/dev/sda8 : start=229113856, size= 77928448, Id=83
/dev/sda9 : start=307044352, size= 3428352, Id=82
I have the problem that gparted cannot read the partition tables. I want to use some free space to install Natty, but the installer only sees the entire hard disk. I would also like to eliminate one of the two swap disks. I was looking at this tutorial in the forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1192598) on how to use sfdisk but the thread appears to be inactive. I would appreciate some advice before I start making modifications. I have an XP primary partition. In the extended partition I have a 2.1gb XP backup file, then 76 gb that I use for shared storage between Linux Mint and XP, I have 40 gb allocated for Mint, 8gb unallocated, and two swap disks 1.1gb and 1.8gb. I need to fix this so I can use gparted. Thanks.
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
omitting empty partition (10)
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9358c633
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3824 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3825 19458 125573737+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 3825 4085 2096451 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 4086 13287 73907476 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 19327 19458 1049600 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 14262 19113 38964224 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 19113 19327 1714176 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
here are the contents of the current PT.txt
# partition table of /dev/sda
unit: sectors
/dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 61432497, Id= 7, bootable
/dev/sda2 : start= 61432621, size=251147475, Id= f
/dev/sda3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/sda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/sda5 : start= 61432623, size= 4192902, Id= 7
/dev/sda6 : start= 65625588, size=147814952, Id= 7
/dev/sda7 : start=310480896, size= 2099200, Id=82
/dev/sda8 : start=229113856, size= 77928448, Id=83
/dev/sda9 : start=307044352, size= 3428352, Id=82