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Hi All, |
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I am resizing a Windows partition to get some space for Gentoo. I |
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noticed that when gparted finished and I rebooted the machine there is |
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a blank unallocated space in front of the Windows 7 partition, shown |
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below as 6.33MB: |
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cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.16.1) |
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Disk Drive: /dev/sda |
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Size: 500107862016 bytes, 500.1 GB |
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Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 60801 |
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Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) |
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sda1 Primary Dell Utility 41.13 |
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sda2 Boot Primary NTFS [] 15728.64* |
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Pri/Log Free Space 6.33* |
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sda3 Primary NTFS [] 52426.47* |
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Pri/Log Free Space 431902.70* |
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Also, when I used gparted to create a new extended partition over the |
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431G free space at the end of the disk I ended up with a similar small |
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unallocated space in front of it. This is something I have observed |
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happening recently on 3 laptops that I have worked on, i.e. resizing |
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or creating a new partition inevitably creates a small blank partition |
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in front of it. |
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Looking at the sectors table I see this: |
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Partition Table for /dev/sda |
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First Last |
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# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flag |
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1 Primary 0 80324 63 80325 Dell Utility (DE) None |
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2 Primary 80325 30800324* 0 30720000*HPFS/NTFS (07) Boot |
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Pri/Log 30800325* 30812669 0 12345*Free Space None |
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3 Primary 30812670 133208104* 0 102395435*HPFS/NTFS (07) None |
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Pri/Log 133208105* 976768064 0 843559960*Free Space None |
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I am not sure what the asterisks are for after the last sector on the |
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second and third partitions. |
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Could this empty space jump be related to gparted somehow shifting the |
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start of a partition to make it align with a particular sector as per |
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previous thread on the 4k sector topic? |
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Should I do anything about it, or just run with it and let gparted |
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align what it wants to align as part of the partitioning process? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |