On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 16:16 +0100, Antonio Trande wrote: > On 11/07/2014 04:04 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 19:39 +0100, Antonio Trande wrote: > >> Hi all. > >> > >> By installing Fedora 21 live Workstation, I noted that all > >> unallocated space on hardisk is not detected so it's not > >> available for a standard partitioning. I had to format in ext4 > >> the unallocated space of which I needed in order to make it > >> visible by Anaconda. > >> > >> Fedora 21 Common Bugs talks of a NTFS resizing bug, not of space > >> management troubles. > > > > Hrm. I didn't run into this. Anaconda saw the free space just fine. > > Is the configuration special in anyway? > > > > Well, yes, it is. > > Hardisk is divided in: > > Model: ATA WDC WD5000BEVT-2 (scsi) > Disk /dev/sda: 500GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: msdos > Disk Flags: > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 2 58.0GB 68.8GB 10.7GB primary linux-swap(v1) > 3 69.7GB 207GB 138GB primary ntfs boot > 4 207GB 500GB 293GB extended > 5 207GB 208GB 524MB logical ext4 > 6 208GB 354GB 146GB logical ext4 > 7 354GB 500GB 146GB logical ext4 > > Unallocated space was contained in an extended partition; Anaconda > detected only free space on the outside of it. AIUI that's by design. Partitioned space is not 'free' by anaconda's definition, and anaconda will not just assume you don't care about the partition and reallocate it. 'Free space' only refers to *unallocated* space. Custom partitioning ought to show the partition and let you choose to format it and assign it a mount point, of course. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test