-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, R. G. Newbury wrote: > >> Having had to rebuild partition tables a few times from some >> over-enthusiastic misuse of Partition Magic, the answer is that: >> >> a) partition table space is limited to four primary partition >> entries (this is 'legacy specification'); > > yup, that's common knowledge. so far, so good. > >> b) any of those entries can be a primary partition of an extended > ^^ ? >> partition type, but you cannot have any primary partitions after >> that entry; > > i'm asssuming that should be "or," not "of." in any event, are you > saying that you can't have any primaries after the extended? really? > why is that? > > rday > FWIW Fdisk did allow me to make a primary partition of the remaining 74GB of my disk, but would not allow me to make that into a second extended partition. Instead I "grew" the existing Ext'd partition to the end of the drive. Scott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFI+7+5mBKdb7VQEcRAtr4AJwP+732n5RWT3kUegOGdaWbeXy/YgCfaYk/ p2EVIOSavjZNGqCQbuaRfU4= =Phlz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
