On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 13:41 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I just got a SSD (not virgin), but I cannot create an extended partition. > > fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sdb: 477 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes > Disklabel type: gpt > Disk identifier: 4D6479F4-D61A-4DEA-8F60-35EFBFE445C2 > > Device Start End Sectors Size Type > /dev/sdb1 2048 1538047 1536000 750M EFI System > /dev/sdb2 1538048 12023807 10485760 5G Microsoft reserved > > Is there a reason? > > gpt disk/SSDs do not have extended partitions Use gdisk to add extra partition(s) Up to 255 partitions maybe And/Or blast it away with dd and start again _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
