Re: Cylinder issue

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> Mike Burger wrote:
>> You have reached the maximum number of primary partitions you can create
>> on your hard drive.  You are permitted 4 primary partitions, or 3
>> primary
>> and one extended, with the extended partition containing logical
>> partitions within.
>>
>> You will not be able to create another partition residing between 15312
>> and 30543.
>>
>> Your only option will likely be to back up, repartition, and restore.
>>
>> And, IMO, if you're going to repartition, you're better off creating
>> /boot
>> as a partition, and then using LVM to carve up the rest of the disk.
> <snip>
> Actually, since he's got 6 partitions, it looks to me as though he's
> already got one of them as an extended partition... or else his partition
> table's really screwed up.

You're correct...I just didn't point that out as it seemed pretty self
evident to me, as well. ;-)

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