Grrmmbl: On Mit, 2007-10-03 at 09:52 +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Mit, 2007-10-03 at 09:33 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote: > > My current harddisk is partitioned in the following manner. The > > number of cylinder max is supposed to be 60801, but the extended > > partition max out to 46688 only. fdisk does not allow me to create > > any more primary, and I cannot convert the the remaining space between Yes, if you have already 4. > > cylinder 46688 and 60801 to become part of the last extended > > partition. How can I use the this space then - which is about 100GB? > > Create another partition with fdisk or any other similar tool. Error messages ans similar would have been nice. Now I see the problem: - You can have at most 4 primary partitions (but an - more or less - unspecified amount of partitions in the extended partition). BTW Windows creates always the extended partition as the second one (if you have one). - The created extended partition is too small. Use parted, gparted or a similar tool (if necessary after booting a Knoppix or another Live-CD) to make it larger. Voila. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
