extended partition not covering entire hard disk.

[Collins Richey]

On 8/26/06, Hervé Fache <Herve at lucidia.net> wrote:
> May I suggest you file a bug against the installer?
>
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs
>
> On 8/26/06, David Balazic <david.balazic at hermes.si> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> >  The ubuntu installer creates a partition layout, where the extended
> > partition
> >  spans the used logical partition and leaves the rest of disk out.
> >  Illustration :
> >
> >  80 GB disk :
> >   - 1st primary partition , 10 GB
> >   - extended partition , 30 GB :
> >     - 1st logical partition : 1 GB
> >     - 2nd logical partition : 29 GB
> >
> >  This layout makes creating further logical partitions very hard,
> >  since the tool used should expand the extended partitions without
> >  destroying its contents, which is a task almost no partitioning
> >  tool can do.
> >
> >  Hereby I politely ask, to make ubuntu create extended paritions that
> >  cover the entire space until the end of the disk.
> >
> >  Thank you.
> >
> >  (or at least argument, why is the current behavior good)
> >
> >  Regards,
> >  David
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> >
> >
> >
FYI, I've already opened bug #57780 for similar behavior. In my case
the installer chopped the size of an existing extended partition. You
could add a 'me too' to that bug.


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Collins Richey
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