On my disk, /dev/sda4 is an extended partition that contains four partitions. If I use cfdisk and delete /dev/sda4, the contained four partitions also seem to have been deleted. But after an extended partition sda4 has been recreated, trying to create a new partition in its free space results in a red message on the bottombar: "Partition 5 is already defined. Delete it before re-adding it." But there is no way to delete partition 5 other than restarting cfdisk. Deleting an extended partition should either delete also all the partitions it contains, or it should refuse the deletion before all the contained partitions have been deleted. Probably the first option is the most user-friendly. Benno -- http://www.fastmail.com - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
