Cylinder issue

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Mike Burger wrote:
> You have reached the maximum number of primary partitions you can create
> on your hard drive.  You are permitted 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary
> and one extended, with the extended partition containing logical
> partitions within.
>
> You will not be able to create another partition residing between 15312
> and 30543.
>
> Your only option will likely be to back up, repartition, and restore.
>
> And, IMO, if you're going to repartition, you're better off creating /boot
> as a partition, and then using LVM to carve up the rest of the disk.
<snip>
Actually, since he's got 6 partitions, it looks to me as though he's
already got one of them as an extended partition... or else his partition
table's really screwed up.

         mark