On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:41:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hde2 7655 19930 98605773 5 Extended
> > /dev/hde3 8990 9254 2128581 82 Linux swap
How was partition 3 created?
> > The problem is that this assumes that an extended partition like
> > /dev/hde2 must be contiguous.
> > Since /dev/hde3 is in the hole in the middle of /dev/hde2, the result
> > is that /dev/hde3 begins before /dev/hde2, and so the constraint
> > insists that /dev/hde2 must end after /dev/hde3. This constraint
> > is not satisfied.
Agreed.
> > Of course, this is probably not safe for most situations,
> > and so it would be better for me to try the other plan of simply deleting
> > my /dev/hde2, and then using parted to recreate it as a logical partition.
> > Maybe it would be nice if parted reported when it detected a hole
> > in an extended partition:
> > disk.c(_partition_get_overlap_constraint):
> > ADD BEFORE LINE 1247:
> > if (walk->geom.start <= geom->start && walk->geom.end >= geom->end
> > && walk->type == PED_PARTITION_EXTENDED
> > && part->type == PED_PARTITION_NORMAL)
> > PRINT_PED_WARNING("Extended partition has a hole in it, occupied
> > by a physical partition.");
> > Or is my situation too unusual to worry about?
It sounds unusual. I would accept a patch that offered to convert the
primary partition into a logical one...
Thanks,
Andrew
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