Adding an Ubuntu Partition to My Harddrive
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Feb 14 18:58:48 UTC 2006
Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 08:56 -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
>
>>Question is what application allows you to mess with logical
>>partitions hiding inside extended partitions? I ran into this Monday,
>>yesterday, morning:
>>
>>Dual Boot: Windows 2003 Server and FC4. Layout -
>>
>>/dev/hda1 is Windows 2003 server 10GB
>>/dev/hda2 is Linux /boot
>>/dev/hda3 is Swap
>>/dev/hda4 is extended with only /root on /dev/hda5
>>
>>Students were asked by another instructor to delete Partition 0
>>(Windows 2003) and split it into 2 logical partitions.
>>
>>Student comes to me and asks if that is even possible and I reply "Not
>>with Windows."
>>
>>Fedora Core Question: Is that even possible with FC4 (or FC5, or any
>>Linux Distro)?
>>
>>Seriously, I am curious =)
>
>
> Not with the partitions as given.
> A hard drive may have a maximum of 4 primary partitions (one of which is
> usually an extended partition with logical partitions in it) and AIUI
> this is a limitation of the partition table itself.
>
> Since the partition table already has 4 primary partitions (hda1 thru
> hda4) you have the drive partition table limitation. You can delete the
> existing partition (hda1) and you can recreate a new smaller hda1, but
> AIUI the space between the end of the new hda1 and the beginning of hda2
> will be unusable unless something else is done to relocate/reconfigure
> the partitions.
>
In this example, isn't /dev/hda4 an extended partition, and not a
primary partition? If it were a primary partition, then we could
delete the first primary partition, and make it an extended
partition and split it up.
Mikkel
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