could not allocate partition

Jing Su jingsu-26n5VD7DAF2Tm46uYYfjYg at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 20 17:29:21 UTC 2003


is this an otherwise blank drive?
are you running out of primary partitions?
have you tried making an extended partition and putting them into the
extended partition as logical partitions?

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Chris Aitken wrote:

> I am getting 'could not allocate partition' trying to partition in Disk
> Druid while installing rh 7.3. No other explanation. It's reportig 10
> GB free space - yet it gives me the error every time I try to create the
> /home directory. The best it will accept is a / and a swap. But I want
> to keep a seperate /home partition this time.
>
> I could partition with pqmagict.exe as I have in the past, but I am
> nervous about using third-party utilities - I suspect some of my past
> partitioning woes have been due to pqmagict. Besides, the version of
> pqmagict I have will only format the partition with ext2, not ext3.
>
> Has anyone else run into this?
>
> Chris
>
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