From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HiSnt-0002Il-PS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:08:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3UA6xKQ025566; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:06:59 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.247]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3UA1gK1019066 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:01:42 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so1206105ana for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:01:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=OhoE25TVqozHhSWjwvHMiPDMfq1BCleR7bUsus0x4VfbxxO/Qioj5YU2MJhkB6EKcGHTi0O7BqryhZd8udB2t5OQ1L7j+KURqKnFxzf9+rz8GmhuzbQLGKBE9eov8SkWII65u//au1ufu3619rYfgQWWfKY3Pei1GSNvuyI0Lqc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=CRC4QdnkJLgl/hgBEGVA3EOci8tf4Ofeh1FfP7CP1wPDFshPL02wZqYyBjBldNILGaNQHnlHidcotGMt1GeNxaraCxJxBCxhQavjigkdJTtmYArNZABDyv3et1jRkQpCn0nTeiqEqRmxKMahSGr4HiEHU8pttyJvINerEDrqf/A= Received: by 10.100.166.14 with SMTP id o14mr4016384ane.1177927302014; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:01:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.47.10 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:01:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:01:41 +0100 From: "Stuart Howard" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: 5724f710-4fc1-4664-8932-99f57c8dc9ed X-Archives-Hash: 75f01638c9a8c81bb7e141d51687043e I have made an annoying error when setting up my new computer. I installed Gentoo then winXP and made it dual boot, all of which has gone fine however when I did this I partitioned my disk as shown the theory being that I would assign space as required after all installation. Unfortunatly I made the 4 partitions all primary! and now I cannot make more partitions to consume the extra space. Can I for example delete the swap and then create an extended partition within the free space and finally create logical partitions as required? Can swap be assigned to an extended/logical partition? I am being a little over cautious in asking this on list before I try but after 3 days of compiling I am not in the mood to lose it all to an avoidable mistake :) Thanks stu Disk /dev/sda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 78 522112+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 79 2628 20482875 83 Linux /dev/sda4 * 2629 6275 29294527+ 7 HPFS/NTFS -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list