From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NinRB-0003Iv-1j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:23:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D594CE0C6D; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:23:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com (mail-bw0-f219.google.com [209.85.218.219]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E27E0C6D for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:23:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so691035bwz.26 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:23:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=YaYtawgB6aqamucdNkGeO8l1GiMnJL/p9Mk6NTxRMrc=; b=C5m/z1SFWvZXRsgJmPvMuMh0XdJc10HPd/QqTlDo9Egxgx5pvc45vuNsJqQab9ZmDj dQqrLF3zxgaLjZ38GIOeUEB85AGFXqVM9+BuTk8ESFK4TQfuKC5oBzR6p0cLMBeXewCP knBaZZEdq2SxaCaAm+AiTO/Xmzr5R5RhBGByQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=XceNMDfx/zr7C6+jvEaeLp3lijkRC+LE0N23pcYEK9uF8w+r4xqx5SD+S/vySPIgYA 1VjaxootB4OG07FFVuXY5Ylj5iA+dG6Rta3c1vHdrla2DIS9iGY0pDFpYBRGI4SVF4UF jM4dMpTMECF6PEdWEBiAWQYZE9WIRsGY1f/Bs= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.32.204 with SMTP id e12mr6066632bkd.115.1266665007770; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:23:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:23:27 +0000 Message-ID: <358eca8f1002200323r6ee3f399s9fc239b654aa205d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] Resizing ntfs creates a hidden partition From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 26045466-3271-4af6-90cb-8d3189545fde X-Archives-Hash: 2d998856f7a2a62136d9e7648f6325b9 Hi All, I am resizing a Windows partition to get some space for Gentoo. I noticed that when gparted finished and I rebooted the machine there is a blank unallocated space in front of the Windows 7 partition, shown below as 6.33MB: =================================================== cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.16.1) Disk Drive: /dev/sda Size: 500107862016 bytes, 500.1 GB Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 60801 Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ sda1 Primary Dell Utility 41.13 sda2 Boot Primary NTFS [] 15728.64* Pri/Log Free Space 6.33* sda3 Primary NTFS [] 52426.47* Pri/Log Free Space 431902.70* =================================================== Also, when I used gparted to create a new extended partition over the 431G free space at the end of the disk I ended up with a similar small unallocated space in front of it. This is something I have observed happening recently on 3 laptops that I have worked on, i.e. resizing or creating a new partition inevitably creates a small blank partition in front of it. Looking at the sectors table I see this: =================================================== Partition Table for /dev/sda First Last # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flag -- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ---- 1 Primary 0 80324 63 80325 Dell Utility (DE) None 2 Primary 80325 30800324* 0 30720000*HPFS/NTFS (07) Boot Pri/Log 30800325* 30812669 0 12345*Free Space None 3 Primary 30812670 133208104* 0 102395435*HPFS/NTFS (07) None Pri/Log 133208105* 976768064 0 843559960*Free Space None =================================================== I am not sure what the asterisks are for after the last sector on the second and third partitions. Could this empty space jump be related to gparted somehow shifting the start of a partition to make it align with a particular sector as per previous thread on the 4k sector topic? Should I do anything about it, or just run with it and let gparted align what it wants to align as part of the partitioning process? -- Regards, Mick