-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? > > rday > Thanks to dj, Tom, Robert, Tony for your help. Fdisk would let me make a new primary partition, but would not let me make it an extended partition (as long as my memory is correct and all I needed to do was change the type to 0f). I was able to resize the partition with parted, and now have added some logical partitions. Scott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFIUqK5mBKdb7VQEcRAkAXAKCok2kmlrNJjDAgsg5d4lV6PkWQywCeOVd/ tPveM7uCLpOPxy7pD8b5WCU= =x9RG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
