Partition problem

[Karl Larsen]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:48 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>> /dev/sda1   *           1         974     7823623+  83  Linux
>>> /dev/sda2             975        1948     7823655   83  Linux
>>> /dev/sda3            1949        2192     1959930   82  Linux swap / Solaris
>>> /dev/sda4            2193        5598    27358695    5  Extended
>>> /dev/sda5            2193        4625    19543041   83  Linux
>>> /dev/sda6            4626        5598     7815591   83  Linux
>>>     
>>>       
>> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 15:11 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
>>> /dev/sda5 on /home type ext3 (rw)
>>>     
>>>       
>>   
>>     
>>>     It does not tell me much.
>>>     
>>>       
>> I know. It does tell me a few things, though.
>>
>> For one, it tells me that /dev/sda4, which is an extended partition
>> according to your fstab output, contains /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6 as
>> logical partitions. This was maybe done by Ubuntu or by yourself at
>> installation time, because the PC spec allows only 4 partitions per
>> disk. You probably already had /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, and /dev/sda3 is
>> swap. So, to create both / and /home partitions, an extended partition
>> had to be used as the 4th partition. Extended partitions can in turn
>> contain several logical partitions. It's just a braindeadness of the PC
>> spec.
>>
>> It also tells me that /dev/sda6 and /dev/sda5 are mounted as /
>> and /home, respectively. 
>>
>> I don't believe that your OS changed these partitions (or any partitions
>> for that matter) all by itself. I cannot imagine why or how it would do
>> that.
>>
>>
>> What do you use /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 for, anyway?
>>   
>>     
>     I think sda1 is empty and sda2 is Ubuntu Gutsy.
>
>
>   
>> At this point I'd rather not go into whether there are ways to
>> "change[ing] something that lets [you] use the whole hard drive without
>> deleting sda5 and sda6"
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
>     Well doing this is the reason for all the other. I will want to put 
> 8.10 on like sda7 if the darn thing can be done.
>
> Karl
>
>
>   
    I looked at man fstab and it lead me to parted and man parted says I 
can change any partition size by giving it the start and finish mb 
readings which parted /dev/sda print gives me. Can I re-size the 
extended partition as needed???

Karl


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