No Sectors left of 120GB Drive
oldman
talbotscott at cox.net
Wed Oct 4 17:27:27 UTC 2006
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>
>> Having had to rebuild partition tables a few times from some
>> over-enthusiastic misuse of Partition Magic, the answer is that:
>>
>> a) partition table space is limited to four primary partition
>> entries (this is 'legacy specification');
>
> yup, that's common knowledge. so far, so good.
>
>> b) any of those entries can be a primary partition of an extended
> ^^ ?
>> partition type, but you cannot have any primary partitions after
>> that entry;
>
> i'm asssuming that should be "or," not "of." in any event, are you
> saying that you can't have any primaries after the extended? really?
> why is that?
>
> rday
>
FWIW Fdisk did allow me to make a primary partition of the remaining
74GB of my disk, but would not allow me to make that into a second
extended partition. Instead I "grew" the existing Ext'd partition to
the end of the drive.
Scott
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