marco antonio cabazal wrote:
> hey there!
>
> below is an output of 'parted /dev/hda print'
>
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0-17301.4 megabytes
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 1 0.0 3004.3 primary FAT boot
> 2 3004.3 17296.5 extended
> 5 3004.4 5247.8 logical FAT
> 6 5247.8 5287.0 logical ext2
> 7 5287.0 7342.2 logical ext2
> 8 7342.2 9397.4 logical ext2
> 9 9397.4 11452.6 logical ext2
> 10 11452.6 11970.3 logical ext2
> 11 11970.3 12229.2 logical linux-swap
> 12 12229.2 12997.9 logical ext2
>
> can i actually resize (shrink) partition 2 (an extended one) so i can
> make room for another primary partition? i want to install freebsd
> on my spare space but the howto says that freebsd requires a primary
> partition and not some partition created by linux. note the end
> point of partition 12. can i still add a primary after that?
>
> thanks in advance!
>
yes, you only consumed two primary partitions ( minor 1 - primary and minor 2 -
extended) and you have two more left. use fdisk of linux to add another primary
partitions.
fooler.
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