On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 08:56 -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: > On 2/11/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I am fairly sure you can install Ubuntu to extended partitions. At > > least I have not run into a Linux distribution that you had to have > > a primary partition for. Depending on your BIOS, you probably need > > one primary partition on the drive, marked active, but lilo and Grub > > don't care about what partition is marked active when installed to > > the MBR. > > Question is what application allows you to mess with logical > partitions hiding inside extended partitions? I ran into this Monday, > yesterday, morning: > > Dual Boot: Windows 2003 Server and FC4. Layout - > > /dev/hda1 is Windows 2003 server 10GB > /dev/hda2 is Linux /boot > /dev/hda3 is Swap > /dev/hda4 is extended with only /root on /dev/hda5 > > Students were asked by another instructor to delete Partition 0 > (Windows 2003) and split it into 2 logical partitions. > > Student comes to me and asks if that is even possible and I reply "Not > with Windows." > > Fedora Core Question: Is that even possible with FC4 (or FC5, or any > Linux Distro)? > > Seriously, I am curious =) Not with the partitions as given. A hard drive may have a maximum of 4 primary partitions (one of which is usually an extended partition with logical partitions in it) and AIUI this is a limitation of the partition table itself. Since the partition table already has 4 primary partitions (hda1 thru hda4) you have the drive partition table limitation. You can delete the existing partition (hda1) and you can recreate a new smaller hda1, but AIUI the space between the end of the new hda1 and the beginning of hda2 will be unusable unless something else is done to relocate/reconfigure the partitions. > -- > WC -Sx- Jones | http://ccsh.us/ | Open Source Consulting >
