extended partition not covering entire hard disk

[David Balazic]

> Tollef Fog Heen
> 
> David Balazic skrev:
> 
> >> From: Phillip Susi [mailto:psusi at cfl.rr.com] 
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> cfdisk has no problem with it, though.  Fdisk is a little more fiddly 

cfdisk has so many bugs, that it was removed from certain distros (like
redhat).

> since you have to delete the extended partition, then 
> recreate it with 
> the same start point (and a bigger size)
> 
> > Again, what is the current behavior good for ?
> > Nobody seems to be able to tell that...
> 
> The current behaviour makes it possible to add a new primary 
> partition 
> after an extended partition.

Is it worth the trouble ?
How many people do primary-extended/logical-primary setups, compared
to primary-extended/logical1,logical2 ... ?

(and they could do the "recreate the extended partition" trick to
achieve the "same")

Regards,
David