Installing Ubuntu

Andrew P. Burgess apb at live.ca
Fri Jan 4 18:14:46 UTC 2008


> If you already had 4 primary partitions, then shrinking one doesn't actually
> help you - you actually need to _remove_ one, change it to an extended
> partition, and create logical partitions within it.  imo, it's easier to
> create one primary for Windows (if you must...), one for swap (not really
> necessary that it be primary), and an extended partition for everything
> else - then split that however you want (mine's actually an LVM).
> -- 
> derek

Thanks; is is possible to have a logical partition outside of an extended partition? Or a primary partition within an extended?
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