[CentOS] Can't create partition even though free space is available
Ruslan Sivak
russ at vshift.com
Tue Mar 30 04:14:57 UTC 2010
Enabling the CentOS repositories and updating the util-linux package
fixed this.
Russ
On 3/29/2010 9:24 PM, Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> I'm working with XenServer 5.5u2, which is basically CentOS 5. I'm
> having trouble creating a partition. I should still have free space in
> the extended partition, but it won't let me create any more logical
> partitions.
>
> Is there anything I'm doing wrong or is this a bug in fdisk?
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 1999.8 GB, 1999844147200 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243133 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 499 4008186 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 500 998 4008217+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda3 999 243133 1944949387+ 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 999 108959 867196701 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 108960 216920 867196701 83 Linux
>
> Command (m for help): n
> Command action
> l logical (5 or over)
> p primary partition (1-4)
> l
> No free sectors available
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