Laurent Duperval:
> I have 1299 cylinders. As far as I can see, only 1268 are used. The rest was
> supposed to be allocated to my swap. Fo some reason, it's not. Is it because
> the second partition is an NTFS partition and because of that partition 5
> should be of the same type? Here's the partition info again:
>
>
> -> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> -> /dev/hda1 1 277 2094088+ 6 FAT16
> -> /dev/hda2 278 556 2109240 5 Extended
> -> /dev/hda3 * 557 563 52920 83 Linux
> -> /dev/hda4 564 1268 5329800 83 Linux
> -> /dev/hda5 278 556 2109208+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
You can have a maximum of 4 primary/extended partitions.
This is what you have already. Thus, you cannot create
another partition to include the rest of your disk.
If you have something like Partition Magic, you could move
the hda4 and then hda3 to the "end" of the disk, resize/extend
hda2, and then create a swap partition (logical) inside of
the extended partition.
Norm Carver
