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# 8  
Old 03-14-2013
@parth buch, thanks for your suggestion, will give a try and update you Smilie
# 9  
Old 03-14-2013
You can also just use fdisk or parted instead of gparted.

If you show us you existing disk partition layout, it would help us help you.
# 10  
Old 03-14-2013
@ fpmurphy i have tried with fdisk, it throws message like no free sectors available to use.
just i have this scenario in my Redhat linux training center.
any how thanks for your suggestion.
# 11  
Old 03-14-2013
throws message like? Tell us what it actually says, and better yet, show us what you actually do.
# 12  
Old 03-15-2013
message is "no free sector to available"
# 13  
Old 03-15-2013
And what did you do? You were already asked for partition layout, you might as well show us the output of 'p'.
# 14  
Old 03-19-2013
@corona688

Actually it was an situation met at training centre, once the message thrown as "no free sector avail"
just dropped that case.reached here to get solution for that scenario.
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