As you stated, only four primary partitions are allowed.
Logical partitions are placed inside a container called an "extended"
partition.
What you will need to do is:
1) shrink your primary partitions, moving them to the beginning of the
drive
2) expand the extended partition to include the space freed-up by the
shrunken primaries
3) move the existing logical partitions to the beginning of the extended
partition
4) add your new partition
The reason for moving the existing logical partitions to the beginning of
the extended partition is to avoid changing the partition designations
(i.e, hda5 would become hda6, etc.)
-----Original Message-----
From: Miroslav Skoric [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 5:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Making more partitions?
Gentle folks,
Beside my Linux (ext2) and NT (ntfs) partitions, I need a fat partition
for exchanging common files. I have looked at what Partition Magic see:
1. NTFS 3043 Primary
2. NTFS 3043 Primary
3. ext2 24 Primary
4. Extended cca 1950 Primary
5. ext2 1875 Logical
6. swapp 71 Logical
I think that only four primary partitions are allowable. Well, if I
shrink both ntfs partitions in order to get some free space to convert
into fat partition, I wonder if I have to format that free space as
another primary or it will become another logical partition (that should
fit into the existing extended)? Whatever I do, I am not sure if either
NT or Linux would run properly after that. Any idea?
FYI, NT's Disk Admin. see:
NTFS NTFS unknown unknown unknown
3044 3044 24 1875 71
Misko
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