Are you saying that I can just edit the partition table arbitrarily to say where the extended partition begins? Alter the 2551 to 2845. Won't that break DFSee, IIRC like Partition Magic, and if so probably like Parted Magic, does not arbitrarily divide up a contiguous block of space between a primary and a logical like what you actually have now but that fdisk claims is a bunch if bits and pieces delineated by partitions that no longer exist. So, DFSee would not directly break anything by putting either a logical or a primary at
On 2011/04/22 17:03 (GMT-0400) Anton Aylward composed: 157. Indirectly fstab entries or menu.lst entries could be broken by having partition names in logical disk order, but those could be easily fixed. Also, the results would be out of sync with what the kernel thinks it knows about the HD until rebooting, or maybe issuing some kind of re-sync command I don't know anything about. With what you have, if I wanted a 5G logical to begin at 157, I would issue this command: cr log ext2 5000 -f:3 -f:3 refers to the freespace that DFSee assigns ID #3, because it directly follows sda1 as ID #1 and sda2 as ID #2. cr means create a partition. log means I want a partition "contained within" the extended. ext2 says I want it to be type 0x83. 5000 is how many MB I want it to be. Without any -e: parameter, it assumes I want it to start at the beginning of the selected freespace area. If I wanted a primary in that same location, the command would be similar: cr pri ext2 5000 -f:3 DFSee has menus that can do the same thing, but I only use its menus for things I can't remember how to do otherwise. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org