error in partition table leaves some space inaccessible
- From: "Allan" <spam@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:32:58 -0500
My partition table has gotten damaged. Specifically, the extended partition has an incorrect ending cylinder, which leaves some unused disk space inaccessible.
My disk started out with a Vista partition at the beginning and a recovery partition at the end, so as fdisk says, "Partition table entries are not in disk order". I have added a Grub boot partition and the extended partition. The extended partition contains three Linux partitions, a swap partition, and a VFAT partition.
According to fdisk (and Vista disk management agrees), the extended partition ends at cylinder 11278 and the recovery partition begins at cylinder 13638. I didn't notice this until I tried to create another partition, so I don't know how long this error has been there. There's 19G unused on my disk. I already have four primary partitions, and the extended partition says it doesn't include the unused area.
Is there a way to correct the end point on the extended partition in my partition table so that this area can be used to create additional partitions?
Thanks,
Allan
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