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.