Here is my drive. What I was trying to do is replace the Win95 with a Linux ext3 file system on /dev/hda4. So there is no easy way to do it with fdisk?
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 2416 19406488+ 0 Empty /dev/hda2 * 2417 2429 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 2430 2462 265072+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 2463 4865 19302097+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 2463 4865 19302066 83 Linux
Peter Smith wrote:
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
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