Hi Gedakc!
I'm having the exact same problem on a Scientific Linux 6.1 500 GB disk.
Both the Live Gparted and the one included in the OS show the entire
disk as unallocated space. Only the Red Hat Disk Utility 2.30.1 included
with the OS shows partitions. However, it includes extra non-existent
partitions at the end of the disk. When I try to delete one of the
unmounted partitions, it gets an error. Other than that, the system
performs perfectly.
If I recall correctly from when I installed this system, I partitioned
the hard drive manually from the command line because the graphical
partitioner would not put the partitions on the hard drive in the
order that I wanted.
So, how can I get Gparted (or another utility) to show the correct
partitions? How can I get Gparted to allow me to delete (or resize)
one or more partitions? Am I doing something wrong?
I have included the output from the commands that you referenced
in the other posts below.
Thanks for your help,
C. Coulter
wizard2277@hotmail.com
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root -> ~ # fdisk -l -u
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb0bef47c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1026047 512000 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 1026048 7317503 3145728 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 7317504 59746303 26214400 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 59746304 1465149167 702701432 5 Extended
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5 59748352 101691391 20971520 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 101693440 143636479 20971520 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 143638528 332382207 94371840 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 332384256 521127935 94371840 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 521129984 605016063 41943040 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 605018112 976773167 185877528 83 Linux
root -> ~ #
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root -> ~ # parted /dev/sda unit s print
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
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root -> ~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 25G 5.6G 18G 24% /
tmpfs 499M 24K 499M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 485M 30M 430M 7% /boot
/dev/sda5 20G 4.6G 15G 25% /u1
/dev/sda7 89G 3.8G 81G 5% /u2
/dev/sda6 20G 172M 19G 1% /u2-virt
/dev/sda8 89G 9.7G 75G 12% /u3
/dev/sda9 40G 2.2G 36G 6% /u7
/dev/sda10 175G 54G 113G 33% /u8
/dev/sr0 3.4G 3.4G 0 100% /media/CDROM