Re: Weird disk problem [solved]

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At 2:52 PM +0200 6/1/07, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
>A.J. Bonnema wrote:
><snip>
>> ===== start fdisk output ==============
>>
><snip>
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sdb1   *           1         131     1052226   83  Linux
>> /dev/sdb2             132       11227    89128620    5  Extended
>> /dev/sdb3           11228       11358     1052257+  83  Linux
>> /dev/sdb4           11359       14622    26218080   83  Linux
>> /dev/sdb5             132        7964    62918541   83  Linux
>> /dev/sdb6            7965       11227    26210016   83  Linux
>>
>
>During install of FC7 I realised what was wrong: I have 3 primary
>partitions and one extended. The rest of the space is the (by
>definition, I guess) unreachable.
 ...

Why not extend the last Basic partition (/dev/sdb4) to fill the rest of the
disk?  Or you could instead back it up and make it LVM, and add partitions
to your heart's content (up to 15 total).  This will have no effect on the
existing Extended partitions.
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