Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 13 January 2006 13:25, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > If i understand what I'm seeing correctly,   I only have two Physical
> > partitions.  Partition Magic shpu;ld give me the option of creating
> > either another physical partition of a logical one.  If I create a
> > physical one, wold it be /dev/hda3/?  If I create a logical one, it
> > would be /dev/hda7/?
>
> If /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 use the entire drive, then you will not be able
> to create hda3.

Yup....   doesn't matter which partitions or group of them use all the space, 
I don't see any space available on the drive.

46.1GB + 9.7GB (in the two linux partitions) =  55.8GB

So you'll have to shrink a partition in order to make room.