extended partition not covering entire hard disk

[John Richard Moser]

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Phillip Susi wrote:
> David Balazic wrote:
>> No, linux fdisk can not do this.
>>
> 
> If you delete the extended partition and create a new, larger one, and 
> recreate the logical drives in it exactly as they were before, this will 
> work to extend the logical partition without destroying the existing 
> logical volumes.  Also try (qt/g)parted, it's excellent at reconfiguring 
> existing partitions.

That is EXTREMELY dangerous; and gparted doesn't seem to know about
resizing an extended partition.

> 
>> Again, what is the current behavior good for ?
>> Nobody seems to be able to tell that...
>>
> 
> Simple... you didn't tell it you wanted the rest of the disk 
> partitioned, so it did just what you asked.  Bear in mind that you might 
> want the whole disk partitioned, but some people do not, so the 
> installer can not force them to do so.
> 

I always wind out adding a big partition at the end.
> 
> 

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