On Sep 25 2007 16:10, Anders Norrbring wrote: >> >> All competent partitioning tools will if necessary automatically >> resize the extended to fit the partitions that can legally be >> there. If there is freespace adjacent to an existing logical, that >> freespace should be allowed to be selected in the tool to add >> another as if it was already part of the extended. >> >> Resizing an extended to a smaller size would be an exercise in >> futility. An extended is actually just a logical construct made up >> of the individual partitions it contains, plus any intervening >> freespace that may exist between any of them, plus the MBR >> partition table entry that points to the first logical partition >> that the extended "contains". > >With that I take it that for example Partition Magic can do this?
Bite the bullet and see. IIRC I read reports that it screws up linux filesystem innards during the operation. >The built in tools in Linux refuse since the "filesystem doesn't >support resize"... I'll make a test on another box first... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
