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Re: problem with creating new partition from free space from partition r
From: |
Patrick Leslie Polzer |
Subject: |
Re: problem with creating new partition from free space from partition resize |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:11:35 +0100 |
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:15:07 -0500
Brandon Simmons <Brandon Simmons <address@hidden>> wrote:
| I have shrunk an ext3 partition so that I have a few gigs of free
| space between 1 & 2 which I would like to partition (in v1.6.15):
This version ist ages old. I highly suggest to upgrade.
| /----------------------\
| Using /dev/hda
| (parted) print
| Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38154.375 megabytes
| Disk label type: msdos
| Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
| 1 0.031 25815.388 primary ext3 boot
| 2 32812.449 33840.043 primary linux-swap
| 3 33840.044 33942.019 primary ext3
| 4 33942.019 38154.375 extended
| 5 33942.050 38154.375 logical lvm
| \----------------------/
|
| However when I run:
|
| (parted) mkpart logical ext3 25816 32812
You cannot create a logical partition outside of an extended partition.
The only thing I wonder about is why Parted is not saying so clearly.
~ Leslie
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