On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:52, Budd, Tracy wrote: > My main question is can I enlarge an extended partition without disturbing a > logical partition(s) within? How (un)safe would that be?
From my personal experience, the answer is yes to the first question and quite safe to the second. I have messed with this laptop's partitions a couple of times now and had no *unrecoverable* problem so far. The procedure itself is quite safe *IF*: a) you don't make any mistake; b) the software you use doesn't make any mistake. Before you start, make sure you know exactly what you're doing. There are 4 tools for editing the partition table (that I know of): parted, fdisk, sfdisk and cfdisk. All have small differences that may cause things to fail if you mix tools. Read the documentation throughly and make sure you have backups of your data *AND* a printout of your partition table. To be on the safe side, get printouts of the partition table with at least fdisk and parted as I have had an issue where a partition created with fdisk and afterwards deleted and recreated with parted ended up a few sectors aside. Note: when you delete the extended partition you also delete all partitions it contains. In your case this means you will need to delete /hdc6 too, so backup *ALL* your data. It should all be OK, but from my experience things tend to go wrong when you *don't* have backups :p Good Luck :) -- Rui Malheiro
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