Hi Jim, An extended partition is just a container for logical partitions. If your existing logical partition does not use all the extended partition, you can create and format a second logical partition in the unused space. Otherwise you will need to shrink your existing logical partition first - google for PartitionMagic for example. See http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html for information about disk partitions. Regards, Peter -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of JCA Sent: Tuesday, 11 May 2004 3:00 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: extended / logical partition Hello, I have an extended partition that I'd like to reformat for linux, but don't want to loose the logical partition it contains. With fdisk I need to delete it first, but then I loose the logical partition. Am I missing something? It it possible to format the extended without loosing the logical partition? Thanks, Jim -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
