extended partition not covering entire hard disk

[David Balazic]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Susi [mailto:psusi at cfl.rr.com] 
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:10 PM
> To: David Balazic
> Cc: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: extended partition not covering entire hard disk
> 
> 
> David Balazic wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I believe that fdisk and (g/qt)parted have no problem adding more 
> logical volumes using the remaining free space on the disk.  

No, linux fdisk can not do this.

> Also if you 
> really want to use the rest of the disk in the extended partition, 
> simply allocate the rest of the space to a logical partition 
> during the 
> install.

Hard to do after the fact.

Again, what is the current behavior good for ?
Nobody seems to be able to tell that...

Regards,
David