Re: [LI] Re: Partitioning : No free primary

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 05:55:19PM +0700, Pankaj Mathur wrote:
> Hi,
> I also had a similar problem when I was trying to install RH 6.1 for a 
> colleague of mine on a 2GB Hard disk. He wanted to maintain a 200 MB DOS 
> partition so I started off with 32 MB of swap and whatever was left was to 
> be the LINUX partition. But after allocating the DOS partition, Swap space 
> there was approximately 1770 MB of space left & while trying to pass 1768MB 
> or so for LINUX partition I got the error "no free space".

That's because partitions need to start/stop at cylinder boundaries. This
results in certain rounding up. The exact amount depends on your disk
geometry.

	-Arun

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