Partition problem

[Karl Larsen]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Saturday 25 October 2008 15:14, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     
>>> Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> So, you  first need to shrink the logical partitions and then you
>>>>> can add new logical partitions in the free space inside the extended
>>>>> partition.
>>>>>           
>>>> I think you missed the problem. The extended partition doesn't use the
>>>> space of the disk to the end. Therefore there is no need to shrink
>>>> existing partitions. If you look at the fdisk output it says there are
>>>> 19457 cylinders while the extended partition ends at 5598. Therefore I
>>>> think it would be sufficient to only resize the extended partition. Then
>>>> there should be plenty of space for new logical partitions. I suppose
>>>> that can be done with fdisk, but as I am not sure (and I don't have a
>>>> spare disk to test it), I can't advise doing it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nils
>>>>         
>>>     It was tried with parted and it didn't work on an Extended
>>> partition. I will try working from a CD and see if that changes anything.
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>       
>>     I just tried parted on the Hardy liveCD and it works exactly like it
>> did on this Hardy on my hard drive.
>>
>> Karl
>>     
>
> Hello Karl. What's it like down in New Mexico today? It's nearly 5pm in 
> Northern France, but I suppose it's still morning there.
>
> Anyway. Meanwhile, and back to the ranch. How about downloading, and burning 
> the iso for the Gparted Live CD. Link below.
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
>
> I havn't tried it for resizing an extended partition, but it certainly worked 
> for resizing an NTFS partition, where other partitioning tools failed.
>
> All the best.
>
> Nigel.
>
>
>
>
>   
    Well Nigel it is really bad now. I tried to re-make a Extended 
partition with fdisk and failed. When I delete /dev/sda4 which was a 
Extended partition I can delete it and make the proper new one size wise 
which is a linux partition. I then use t to change the type to Extended 
which is 5 and this happens:

Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 4
Hex code (type L to list codes): 5
You cannot change a partition into an extended one or vice versa
Delete it first.

    Great advice but no way to do it :-)

Karl


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