This is the first time that I've used SATA harddrives on this new machine that I've built, so am a bit in the dark. Fedora 8 is using sda1 for / , and sda2 for /home. sda3 is swap sda4 (the 4th primary is the extended partition) sda5, and 6, are / , and /home for another linux distro sda7, and 8, are / , and /home for another linux distro sda9, and 10, are / , and /home for yet another linux distro sda11, and 12, are / , and /home for another linux distro There is still showing 61020 MB of free space on the drive, but trying to create a new partition for the install of Fedora 9, with 10000MB for / I get the following output. Written in freehand. Error Partitioning ould not allocate requested partitions: Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions. Not enough space left to create partition for /. I'm sure I've seen some stuff about partition limits on SATA drives, but can't remember where. If there are limits, are there any workarounds so that I can use this 61+GB of freespace. Thanks for any suggestions. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
