"Freespace Unusable" message

Help!
I'm getting the message in the subject from a environment that is a 160GB 
WD as disk0 and a 40GB Maxtor as disk2.  Disk0 has 100GB free and I want 
to allocate 12GB of the freespace for a unixos2 drive.  The machine has no 
trouble booting or running that I know of and I'm running eCS 1.05.  Am I 
missing a fixpak or something? Might this cause me to re-install - again?
Help!
Gene

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 14:18:34 UTC, etpoole@adelphia.net (Eugene Poole) 
wrote:

> Help!
> I'm getting the message in the subject from a environment that is a 160GB 
> WD as disk0 and a 40GB Maxtor as disk2.  Disk0 has 100GB free and I want 
> to allocate 12GB of the freespace for a unixos2 drive.  The machine has no

> trouble booting or running that I know of and I'm running eCS 1.05.  Am I 
> missing a fixpak or something? Might this cause me to re-install - again?
> Help!
> Gene

Don't forget that you can only have 4 primary partitions on a drive.  
Boot Manager counts as 1 and the extended partition space for logical 
partitions counts as 1.  Windoz is the only guy that I know of that 
really needs a primary partition.  Linux installs fine in a logical 
partition.  You will probably need 2 partitions, one for the root (/) 
and one for swap.


-- 
Chuck McKinnis
mckinnis@sandia.net
Covenant Solutions

This has been running for awhile now.  I was attempting to create another 
logical volume - but LVM tells me that the freespace on the drive is 
unusable.  I never get to the point where I select logical or primary 
(when you get to that point, doesn't LVM gray out the primary selection?).

The drive known as disk0 has all of the drive letters (C - J).  The drive 
known as disk2 has been broken into 4-parts and each part was added to the 
4 JFS partitions originally built on disk0 (drives D, G, I, and J).  So 
ther are no readily accessible partition on drive 2. Drive D: went from 
6GB to 16GB; Drive G: went from 12GB to 22GB; Drive I: went from 12GB to 
22GB; Drive J: went from 12GB to 22GB. Drives C: and H: are HPFS; Drives 
E; and F: are FAT (for old DOS stuff I like).

I was looking at the samba server documentation from Smedley's Unix ports 
and it suggested that you use a isolated partition to hold all of the 
ports and use a JFS partition so that space could be added if necessary.  
That's how all of this started. I just got tired of using HPFS and FAT and 
all of the drive letters needed on these large hard drives to keep them at 
a manageable size.  I've used Fedora's Disk Druid and Suse's Yast - so I 
thought I knew what I was doing.

But after I sent the original message, every one of the JFS partitions 
went away to never-never land so now I have a bigger problem.  The machine 
boots, but all of my apps that I use was on D: and G:; My mini-repository 
of Hobbes, Innotek, and Smedley was on J:; my development was on I:.

I started LVM with the /startlog parm and it produced a 160K log file with 
all kind of errors pointing to the MBR and the allocation tables.

By the time this is all over, I think I will be able to write a 'How Not 
To' for disk allocations and LVM.

Gene

I had several days of problems installing a multi-boot version of ECS,
but it was a while back and I can't recall the exact error messages.
Basically LVM couldn't or wouldn't handle more than two primary partitions,
in my case Windows 2K (the first partition) and BootManager (the second).
All the other partitions had to be extended partitions, contained I think
in entry four of the main partition table.

(I was trying to add a second HPFS partition as the third primary 
partition,
and then the remaining (extended) partitions in entry four).

Will

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 14:18:34 UTC, etpoole@adelphia.net (Eugene Poole) 
wrote:

> Help!
> I'm getting the message in the subject from a environment that is a 160GB 
> WD as disk0 and a 40GB Maxtor as disk2.  Disk0 has 100GB free and I want 
> to allocate 12GB of the freespace for a unixos2 drive.  The machine has no

> trouble booting or running that I know of and I'm running eCS 1.05.  Am I 
> missing a fixpak or something? Might this cause me to re-install - again?
> Help!
> Gene
> 
> 

I think it is time for DFSee.  I installed Suse a while back, and it 
mucked up things royally.  I was able to get everything straightened out
with DFSee.  I found that Xandros seems to play well with OS/2.

-- 
Chuck McKinnis
mckinnis@sandia.net
Covenant Solutions