[NTLUG:Discuss] Disk partitions under linux

[terry]

On 5/18/07, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
> I have a 120GB Seagate hard drive which I use for experimentation, right
> now I have several distributions installed and set up for multi-boot
> from a single menu.  There are two primary partitions (/boot for 107MB
> and a user data partition for 3010Mb) followed by an extended partition
> (80GB) containing: 10.7GB (CentOS 5), 1077MB (swap), 10.7GB (SuSE 8.2),
> 10GB (Fedora Core 5), 10GB (SuSE 9.2), 10GB (empty ext3), 12GB (empty ext3).
>
> Questions/issues:
>
> At one point I thought I saw a partitioning utility which listed free
> space but can't seem to get that kind of listing any more, is there a
> program or switch I'm missing?
>
> This disk should have about 36.9GB of free space but when I try to
> create a new primary or extended partition nothing happens - no error
> messages but no new partition either.  What's wrong?
>

What kind of drive is it?  IDE, SCSI or... ?

Have you tried just using fdisk (from command line), to create the new
partitions [on the free space]?  If so, what was the result?
If you haven't tried it, do so.


And; [just out of curiosity]:
What does "fdisk -l" report [about this drive]?  (Show us.)

What does /proc/?/?/capacity report about this drive?