On Thu, 10 May 2001, Christian Bricart wrote:
> The creation of the extended partition is kind of broken (ever since).
> Imagine you have an empty disk and add partitions (e.g. with auto layout):
>
> +------+--------+----------+--------------+
> | hda1 | hda5 | hda6 | hda7 |
> +------+--------+----------+--------------+
>
> Now you decide to leave free space on the disk for later partioning, and
> delete "hda7", click <Done>..
> This results in creation of hda1,hda5,hda6 (obviously . :-))
> However, the extended partition on the disk has been truncated to the
> size of hda5+hda6 ... doh...
>
> Now you are only able to create another 3 primary partitions, as all
> space in the extended partition has already been taken...
>
> I admit this is a 'feature'... but it would be nice if DiskDrake would
> add the extended partition "grow to fill disk" - perhaps with a further
> Dialog...
I had the same behaviour with Mandrake 7.2, but even more stupid, because
I already had three primary partitions and therefore could not use the
remaining space at all! I would not call that a feature.
Arnd <><
