Re: have used only 4904 out of 9729 cylinders, but "No free sectors available"

From: James Sinnamon (jps_at_westnet.com.au)
Date: 05/24/04

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Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 15:15:01 +1000

    On Mon, 24 May 2004 01:47 pm, James Sinnamon wrote:
    > Dear Debian users,
    >
    > During my installation of a 'testing' (I think) system I partitioned
    > my 80Gig hard disk drive.

    I have been told that I have not provided enough information.
    My apologies to all.

    I installed Debian 'testing' from a 110MB CDROM which I had
    downloaded from my other machine. During the install, I partitioned
    my 80Gig Hard disk (WDC WD800JB-00ETA, ATA
       - see dmesg output below).

    I only partitioned about roughly 45 Gig and planned to do
    the rest at a later stage. When I did, using fdisk, and entered the
    'n' for 'new partition' command, I got the message

        No free sectors available

    -- see further below.

    Could someone please tell how to get around this problem?

    TIA.

    James

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    1. dmesg output, show information about 80 Gig (Western Digital?)
        Hard Disk Drive

    hda: WDC WD800JB-00ETA0, ATA DISK drive
    blk: queue f8826460, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
    hdc: CDU5211, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
    ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
    ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
    hda: attached ide-disk driver.
    hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UD
    MA(100)
    Partition check:
     /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 >
    Journalled Block Device driver loaded
    kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
    EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
    kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
    EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
    Adding Swap: 2096436k swap-space (priority -1)
    EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,10), internal journal

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    2. Output from fdisk

    The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9729.
    There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
    and could in certain setups cause problems with:
    1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
    2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
       (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

    Command (m for help):
    Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

       Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hda1 1 522 4192933+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA
    )
    /dev/hda2 523 555 265072+ 83 Linux
    /dev/hda3 556 1860 10482412+ 83 Linux
    /dev/hda4 1861 4904 24450930 f W95 Ext'd (LBA
    )
    /dev/hda5 1861 2513 5245191 83 Linux
    /dev/hda6 2514 3035 4192933+ 83 Linux
    /dev/hda7 3036 3296 2096451 82 Linux swap
    /dev/hda8 3297 3557 2096451 83 Linux
    /dev/hda9 3558 3688 1052226 83 Linux
    /dev/hda10 * 3689 4904 9767488+ 83 Linux

    Command (m for help): No free sectors available

    Command (m for help): 

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James Sinnamon
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