Partition problem

[elmo]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>     On my Hardy hard drive which is a 160 GB I have the following shown 
> by fdisk:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00056ea5
>
>    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
>
>     What has happened is this. The listing of /dev/sda4 has changed by 
> itself. When I made the Extended partition it had 2193 19457 to cover 
> the whole hard drive. It changed somehow to just including sda5 and sda6.
>
>     My question is, can I change something that lets me use the whole 
> hard drive without deleting sda5 and sda6?
>
> Karl
>
>   
If you want to get a really good view of how your hard drives are 
partitioned, run Ranish's Partition Manager.

I have it on a floppy and use an external floppy drive but there's no 
reason you couldn't use a CD

http://www.ranish.com/part/

The program is somewhat obsolete but I haven't found one that shows how 
your drives are partitioned better or
as well as this one does.
I've used it to examine the partitioning of a computer with three hard 
drives including an external drive.
You can easily resize partitions and set up Extended partitions

It's too bad that Ranish didn't follow through and keep it up to date.
It's still very handy if you want to get a good picture of your 
partitions and resize them,

elmo.