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Old 06-02-2015
Can you try the above suggestion from the terminal window and paste the output (in CODE tags) ?


Robin
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Old 06-10-2015
MBR only support 4 primary partitions

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mukul Sharma
if you see below you can see that I've added 6445 MB space to the disk and it is unallocated. How can I use / assign this space?

Code:
[root@rac1 ~]# parted -s /dev/sda print free
Model: ATA VBOX HARDDISK (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 38.7GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
        32.3kB  1049kB  1016kB           Free Space
 1      1049kB  525MB   524MB   primary  ext4         boot
 2      525MB   21.5GB  20.9GB  primary               lvm
        21.5GB  21.5GB  1370kB           Free Space
 3      21.5GB  24.7GB  3216MB  primary
 4      24.7GB  32.2GB  7518MB  primary
        32.2GB  38.7GB  6445MB           Free Space

Your device uses a Master Boot Record scheme (that's the Partition Table: msdos). MBR only support 4 primary partitions, anything else left is forfeited.
The 4th partition should have been as large as the rest of the drive, or an extended logical partition should have been created first, and then more partitions could be created inside that extended logical partition.

As it stands, you can not use those 6445MB, unless, partition 4 is destroyed first, and recreated properly.
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