-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-09-10 at 01:28 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
So, you have 3 primaries, one extended, and then free space, outside of the extended partition? Then that free space is lost.
An "extended partition" is a logical construct made up from the sum of existing logical partitions plus any freespace existing between them. Any partitioning tool that claims otherwise is broken. No immediately adjacent freespace can ever be "lost". "Lost" freespace can only exist which lies between primary partitions while the MBR table has all 4 of its entries used.
The extended partition is also a primary, real, partition, and can have any size. It can be, as you say, the size between the first logical and the last logical, or it can be all the space not in the other primaries, or it can be anything you choose. For instance, I have a disk with 1 primary, 1 extended, several logicals, and two primaries at the end. In that order. Some partitioners, true, automatically increase the size of the extended when you create a new logical partition. But some don't, and to those the space outside the extended partition is effectively lost. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFG5R7htTMYHG2NR9URAnI9AKCWBXJ6mwJOXjek6AgU7vCeolY3rACfdz5Q AoAB3+SL/dc6YdhK4yxrwWc= =wSFt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org