So here I am trying to install Fedora 18 on my laptop (dual boot: fedora 17 and Win7) and here is the partition scheme for that:
I know that this is not the best partition scheme, firstly as I just realized, I should have made a separate /home and '/' partition. And the second reason being that gparted prompts that the sda5 ntfs partition is inconsistent and I should run chkdsk /f on windows..:doh:
So I start off with booting off a live usb into f18 installation. I selected the 'I don't need help,..' option to customize the partition scheming on my own. In the next screen, I deleted the existing swap and linux partition (with the '-' sign at the bottom). At this time, it shows me a pink and grey box at the bottom with the amount of space left, which is around 175gb..
Now I go ahead and add a '/' partition of 20 GB and then a /home and then a swap...
The issue here is that, it selects the / partition to have only 2Mb and I am unable to increase the space alloted to it, the partition is sda4. the /home and swap are given the space I select, 25 GB and 6GB respectively..
I don't get it. But when I undo all that, by going back and this time trying to automatically select the space (after deleting the existing swap and '/' i.e..), it works well with giving around 51 Gb to '/', 6.71 Gb to swap and so on....but wait...now the partition is sda8 for root...
So from what I understood, when I manually try to add '/' of any space, it only allocates 2mb but when it does it on its own it allocates a whole lot of space. I cannot understand why sda4 is selected when i manually do it and why can't it allocate more space?:confused:
Any ideas, inputs, 2 cents, 10 cents appreciated...
Code:
[root@parth ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders, total 1250263728 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x29782978
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 52430847 26214400 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 52430848 471845114 209707133+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 471845115 1250258624 389206755 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5 471845178 891784214 209969518+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda6 1236924738 1250258624 6666943+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda7 891787264 1236924415 172568576 83 LinuxSo I start off with booting off a live usb into f18 installation. I selected the 'I don't need help,..' option to customize the partition scheming on my own. In the next screen, I deleted the existing swap and linux partition (with the '-' sign at the bottom). At this time, it shows me a pink and grey box at the bottom with the amount of space left, which is around 175gb..
Now I go ahead and add a '/' partition of 20 GB and then a /home and then a swap...
The issue here is that, it selects the / partition to have only 2Mb and I am unable to increase the space alloted to it, the partition is sda4. the /home and swap are given the space I select, 25 GB and 6GB respectively..
I don't get it. But when I undo all that, by going back and this time trying to automatically select the space (after deleting the existing swap and '/' i.e..), it works well with giving around 51 Gb to '/', 6.71 Gb to swap and so on....but wait...now the partition is sda8 for root...
So from what I understood, when I manually try to add '/' of any space, it only allocates 2mb but when it does it on its own it allocates a whole lot of space. I cannot understand why sda4 is selected when i manually do it and why can't it allocate more space?:confused:
Any ideas, inputs, 2 cents, 10 cents appreciated...