Jeff Vian wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 08:56 -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: > >>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. > In this example, isn't /dev/hda4 an extended partition, and not a primary partition? If it were a primary partition, then we could delete the first primary partition, and make it an extended partition and split it up. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
