On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 13:41 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
Hello,
I just got a SSD (not virgin), but I cannot create an extended partition.
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 477 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 4D6479F4-D61A-4DEA-8F60-35EFBFE445C2
Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdb1 2048 1538047 1536000 750M EFI System /dev/sdb2 1538048 12023807 10485760 5G Microsoft reserved
Is there a reason?
gpt disk/SSDs do not have extended partitions
Use gdisk to add extra partition(s) Up to 255 partitions maybe
And/Or blast it away with dd and start again