Add an extended partition with disk druid

[Michael Schwendt]

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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:28:13 +0200 (CEST), Marco Ermini wrote:

> > > Disk Druid will automatically propose you to create an extended
> > > partition when it's needed (i.e. when you already have 4 primary
> > > partitions).
> >
> > How does it do that? Does it delete one of the four primary
> > partitions?
> 
> It did not need to delete a partition. Partitions are NOT created when you
> run Disk Druid; you are just "projecting" a disk configuration, then you
> have to "commit" the "project".

Let me rephrase. What does Disk Druid suggest when (quote) "you
already have 4 primary partitions"? In that case the partition table
is full, and Disk Druid cannot put an extended partition on the list
of partitions to be created.

Concerning the second part of your reply, Disk Druid is a
partitioning tool, an interface to libparted. It does not matter
whether operations are executed immediately or in a second pass.
When the partition table is full, Disk Druid can't help. When the
partition table has room for an extended partition, however, it can
choose to create logical partitions automatically. Else the "force
primary partition" checkbox wouldn't make sense.

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