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["Anders Norrbring" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 2007/09/25 10:10 (GMT-0400) Anders Norrbring apparently typed:
> 
> >> Från: Felix Miata [mailto:mrmazda@xxxxxx]
> 
> >> 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?
> The built in tools in Linux refuse since the "filesystem doesn't
> support resize"...
> > I'll make a test on another box first...
> 
> I recommend avoiding PM whenever possible, as it likes to prefer windoz
> methods where standards are unclear. Parted, Gparted & Qparted all
> ought to
> be able to do it if sfdisk and cfdisk cannot. Also look at fips.
> 
> Anyway, there is no filesystem on any extended partition The
> filesystems are
> all on individual partitions, just as with primary partitions. Each may
> or
> may not be resizable according to the actual filesystem installed.
> 
> Maybe you should give us your partitioning scheme and plan so we can
> see what
> your actual obstacle(s) may be.
> 
> I stick to one cross-platform tool: http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/


This isn't from the actual box, but it's a similar setup (can't seem to screenshot the current one):

/dev/sdc1               1       19582   157292383+  83  Linux
/dev/sdc2           19583      243132  1795665375    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdc5           19583       30027    83891430   83  Linux
/dev/sdc6           32638      243132  1690801056   83  Linux

sdc1 is xfs
sdc5 and sdc6 are reiserfs

Anders

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