On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 11:02 AM -0400 10/2/06, Tom Diehl wrote: > ... > >Will it let you make another primary partition?? I cannot remember > >if you can have 2 extended partitions or not. > > I think one /can/, but it is contrary to specification (which you > showed below), which says there can be only one Extended partition > in a Basic partition table. There can certainly be both an Extended > and an LVM partition in a Basic partition table. but wouldn't that LVM correspond to just a primary partition? thus not violating the general rule of only one extended partition? rday