cant access new partition

[Tasslehoff]

I am getting ready to reinstall gentoo from the currently running debian. I resized my /home (/dev/hda3) partition to make room for me to install on now I cant get at the new partition

I logged in as root
unmounted the home partition
used qtparted to resize the /home partition by a gig
comited the changes
remounted the home directory
logged out and back in as a regular user

now I have a gig of free space in the middle of my disk that is free though no partition is there

[NeddySeagoon]

Tasslehoff,

You aren't going to like the answer.

You are allowed 4 primary partions or 3 primary partitions and an extended partition on each drive. The extended partition is really a container for further logical partiitons.

You are up to you maximum of 3 primaries and an extended and have resized a primary parttion to make some space. Unfortunately, you cannot now turn this space into a partion because its outside you extended partion and no further primary partition table entries are available. You can't even add it to the extended partition, because an extended partition must be contigious disk blocks.

A better partitioning scheme is
hda1 /boot
hda2 <swap>
hda3 Extended - rest of disc
hda4 (spare)
hda5 first logical parttion.
hda6... more partitions

I think you are into backing up everything, repartitioning your drive and reinstalling. Do not use a partiion image tool because the restore will be to different size partitions.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[Tasslehoff]

You are right I dont like the answer But it makes sence, I was trying to avoid downtime but that is not going to happen. Thanks for your answer