Disk of 10 G partially seen

[labadie_1]

Hello

I have XP installed on an Armada M700. The Armada M700 have disks with 10 G or more. The Xp partition uses 5,59 G. I wanted to install a Knoppix on the disk, but Qtparted and fdisk do not see the supposed 4,41 G of free space where I intented to put ext3 partitions.

some more info
QTparted output
>>01 /UNIONFS/dev/hda1 ntfs actif 5,59 Gb N/A 0,03 Mb 5,59G

knoppix@4[knoppix]$ df
Sys. de fich. 1K-blocs Occupé Disponible Capacité Monté sur
/dev/root 3471 12 3459 1% /
/dev/hdb 715586 715586 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/cloop 1890652 1890652 0 100% /KNOPPIX
/ramdisk 246120 15484 230636 7% /ramdisk
/UNIONFS 2136772 1906136 230636 90% /UNIONFS
knoppix@4[knoppix]$

root@4[knoppix]# fdisk -l

Disque /dev/hda: 6007 Mo, 6007357440 octets
240 têtes, 63 secteurs/piste, 776 cylindres
Unités = cylindres de 15120 * 512 = 7741440 octets

Périphérique Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 776 5866528+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
root@4[knoppix]#

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

XP specifically configures the system to make it hard to add a Linux partition.

You can do this:

http://www.sysresccd.org/

Get their cd based distribution. Boot off of it. Reduce the size of the the XP partition.

Then boot knoppix and install with grub boot management into remaining space. Then it will work.

SEP

[labadie_1]

I reduce the size of the XP partition using which tool ?

Regards

Gerard

[Ivan Ferreira]

The fdisk output shows that is recognized as a 6 GB disk. Try using parted to manage the disk partitions.

[labadie_1]

I cleaned the XP partition, shrinked it to 4,5 G, but I still do not see the 5,5 remaining Giga.

Any idea ?

Thanks

Gerard

[labadie_1]

Is it possible that when installing XP, XP formatted the disk as a 6 G ? So now the only workaround would be reformatting the disk ?