extended / logical partition

[Peter Smith]

Hi Jim,

An extended partition is just a container for logical partitions.

If your existing logical partition does not use all the extended partition,
you can create and format a second logical partition in the unused space.

Otherwise you will need to shrink your existing logical partition first -
google for PartitionMagic for example.

See http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html for
information about disk partitions.

Regards,
Peter

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Subject: extended / logical partition


Hello,

I have an extended partition that I'd like to reformat for linux, but
don't want to loose the logical partition it contains.  With fdisk I
need to delete it first, but then I loose the logical partition.
Am I missing something?

It it possible to format the extended without loosing the logical partition?

Thanks,
Jim


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