No Sectors left of 120GB Drive

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Mon Oct 2 22:26:34 UTC 2006


At 12:28 PM -0400 10/2/06, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Tony Nelson wrote:
>
>> At 11:02 AM -0400 10/2/06, Tom Diehl wrote:
>>  ...
>> >Will it let you make another primary partition?? I cannot remember
>> >if you can have 2 extended partitions or not.
>>
>> I think one /can/, but it is contrary to specification (which you
>> showed below), which says there can be only one Extended partition
>> in a Basic partition table.  There can certainly be both an Extended
>> and an LVM partition in a Basic partition table.
>
>but wouldn't that LVM correspond to just a primary partition?  thus
>not violating the general rule of only one extended partition?

Yes.
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