jdow wrote:
> From: "Tony Nelson" <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> At 12:28 PM -0400 10/2/06, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> In an abstract sense I'd love to know what limits a disk to only one
> extended partition other than legacy and sloppy code. I've had two
> extended partitions on other systems before. I think I did that with
> the 2.0.x kernel tree at one time, too. All that's needed is simply
> traversing the partition tables sensibly.
>
> {^_^}
>
If I remember correctly, it is a limit in the DOS partition table
specifications. In practice, I believe you can have both a DOS and a
Linux extended partition. If I remember correctly, DOS/Windows will
ignore a Linux extended partition, but Linux will see both. It has
been a long time sense I played with this, so my memory could be
wrong, or things may have changed to follow the specifications better.
Now, for the original problem. I wonder if parted can expand the
logical partition to use all the free space. This would give you
room for more logical partitions. I have not tried this, so I do not
know if it will work. It might be worth playing with on a drive that
you can afford to trash...
Mikkel
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