Dave Martini 1 wrote:
Sorry, but you are allowed only 4 primary partitions *including* the extended partition.I'm trying to create a new partition on my boot disk but I get an error that says I must delete one first. I have 4 partitions defined so far and want to create a 5th. which I would have thought would be an extended partition since I already have 4.
Can anyone help?
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407865856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 127 1020096 83 Linux /dev/sda2 128 382 2048287+ 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 383 1657 10241437+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 1658 2266 4891792+ 83 Linux
Command (m for help): n You must delete some partition and add an extended partition first
Command (m for help): v 106960832 unallocated sectors
Dave Martini LLNL
You will have to back up /dev/sda4 and delete it, then make the rest of the disk into the extended partition /dev/sda4.
Then you can create as many logical partitions (sda5, sda6, ...) as you wish inside the extended partition.
The extended partition itself is not mountable and does not contain data, only logical partitions.
Regards, Peter Smith WBM Pty Ltd.
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