Hi everybody, I recently installed Debian Etch and it seems the installer resized my extended partition to fit the size of the logical volumes without asking me about it.
I installed Debian in addition to a Fedora installation which was already installed on one of my two hard drives. Both my drives had an extended partition that covered the whole drives and various logical volumes that didn't fill the partion but left same spare space at the end. I created additional logical volumes to install Debian in on one of my drives (still leaving spare space in the partition), booted the Installation CD and used the partitioning tool just to select the newly created volumes as installation target. I didn't create or remove any partitions or volumes and I didn't touch the other drive at all. The installation went fine and I now have a working Debian Etch which is great but I just realized that the size of extended partitiones on both drives correspond to the logical volumes. There is no more empty space in the partitions. The Debian installer must have shrinked those partitions to fit the volumes. Why did it do this? And more importantly: How do I reverse it? So far I have used fdisk for all my partitioning needs. Thanks in advance Ulrich -- Institut für Plasmaforschung, Universität Stuttgart Tel. 0711/685-62156 PGP key ID: 0xDF6FC4FA
