Hi Jim, It looks to me that you have done it already. /dev/hda4 is an extended partition which contains /dev/hda5 - note that the start and end sectors are identical. You cannot use /dev/hd4 directly; all you get is /dev/hd5. Regards, Peter -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of JCA Sent: Tuesday, 11 May 2004 8:49 AM To: pasmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: extended / logical partition Thanks Peter, 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 > > >-- >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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
