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04-05-2004 01:53 AM
04-05-2004 01:53 AM
Adding an Extended Partition
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04-05-2004 02:25 AM
04-05-2004 02:25 AM
Re: Adding an Extended Partition
If the RAID 5 is hardware controled, the linux box only detects a big hard disk, so i think you can add it with fdisk, this means to destroy one of 4 primary partitions.
Frank.
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04-05-2004 11:31 AM
04-05-2004 11:31 AM
Re: Adding an Extended Partition
You can only have 4 partitions on any given disk.
An extended can have 4 'logical' partitions.
Go good 'ol DOS limitiations ;) Much fun.
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04-05-2004 11:32 AM
04-05-2004 11:32 AM
Re: Adding an Extended Partition
You can only have 4 partitions on any given disk.
An extended can have 4 'logical' partitions.
So yea, backup one of your partitions, destroy it, create an extended, then some logical's under that.
Go good 'ol DOS limitiations ;) Much fun.
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04-06-2004 03:23 AM
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04-06-2004 04:51 AM
04-06-2004 04:51 AM
Re: Adding an Extended Partition
There are at most 4 partitions, either:
1,2 or 3 primary and 1 extended partition
or
4 primary
You can create logical partitions in the extended partition.
Numbering is as follows:
primaries: 1, 2, 3, 4
extended: 4
logical: 5, 6, ...
JP.
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04-06-2004 07:29 PM
04-06-2004 07:29 PM
Re: Adding an Extended Partition
fdisk certainly won't do that for you.
I don't think Diskdruid has such an option. It would involve moving logical partitions.
I have had a bad experience with PartitionMagic, which can do the job for you, which didn't work well with Linux.
Are there other (Linux) programs to shrink filesystems / (primary) partitions?
You'll have to try and move data from a primary partition to somewhere else: another primary partition? Another disk? Tape?.
To be honest, I've not done many such things on Linux. Always used Partition Magic, till I got Linux problems with that.
JP