Help activating available disk space, please.

[Tim]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 01:42 -0800, David L. Gehrt wrote:
> In fdisk you can arrange to get the partitions in disk order but I am
> not sure of the effect when your swap partition is a primary partition
> located on disk "after" the extended partition.

I don't think you'll be able to do that, for (at least) IDE drives being
read by a IBM PC clone BIOS, drives use up to four primary partitions,
and they come before the extended partition (the 5th one), the remainder
fit inside the extended partition, with higher numbers than it (6,
onwards).

Other, very different, systems don't have this weird way of fitting some
partitions inside others, you just carve the drive up into individual
partitions as you like it.

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