On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:14 PM, kenneth gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com>wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 17:10 +0530, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > > > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > > > Disk identifier: 0x00088787 > > > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > /dev/sda1 * 2048 143362047 71680000 83 Linux > > > /dev/sda2 143362048 215042047 35840000 83 Linux > > > /dev/sda3 215042048 223234047 4096000 82 Linux swap / > > > Solaris > > > /dev/sda4 223234048 312581807 44673880 5 Extended > > > /dev/sda5 223236096 312580095 44672000 83 Linux > > > > > > It looks like you have allocated the entire disk space as various > > partitions. I guess by free space, you mean one of the partitions is > > empty > > or un formatted. Try deleting the partition which has the free space. > > Make > > it un allocated disk space. Then mint might recognize this. > > this is my current partition - when I tried the dual boot, I had 40 GB > of free space also. > > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > I have not come across your requirement. To my understanding with study to the url it requires LVM for dual booting. http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/06/20/dual-boot-fedora-15-and-ubuntu-11-04-with-either-side-on-an-lvm-partitioning-scheme/ -- Thanks, V. Karthick My Experience shared in : http://vkarthickeyan.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
