Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 25 2007 16:10, Anders Norrbring wrote:
>> 
>> All competent partitioning tools will if necessary automatically
>> resize the extended to fit the partitions that can legally be
>> there. If there is freespace adjacent to an existing logical, that
>> freespace should be allowed to be selected in the tool to add
>> another as if it was already part of the extended.
>> 
>> Resizing an extended to a smaller size would be an exercise in
>> futility. An extended is actually just a logical construct made up
>> of the individual partitions it contains, plus any intervening
>> freespace that may exist between any of them, plus the MBR
>> partition table entry that points to the first logical partition
>> that the extended "contains".
>
>With that I take it that for example Partition Magic can do this?

Bite the bullet and see. IIRC I read reports that it screws up
linux filesystem innards during the operation.

>The built in tools in Linux refuse since the "filesystem doesn't
>support resize"... I'll make a test on another box first...



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