-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-02-17 at 11:57 -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
Extended is entry in partition table, so you can use 3 primary + 1 extended. I use 2 + 1 and nobody is complaining.
Of course you can, but it is less flexible. Once that #2 is extended type, it's not so simple to change any of them to be #3 and #4. Resizing gets too complex.
:-) Sure. Though, it depends on what is /dev/sda1.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 3135 25173855 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 6672 19457 102703514 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda3 * 3135 6672 28410952 83 Linux /dev/sda5 6672 6933 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 6934 9366 19543041 83 Linux /dev/sda7 9367 13014 29302528+ 83 Linux /dev/sda8 13015 18237 41945715 83 Linux /dev/sda9 18237 19457 9807619+ 83 Linux
Can you see something unusual with /dev/sda3 ? It was created by squeezing windows more than it wwas right after installation.
Suppose I have used 1,2,5,6,..16,17. Do you see and easy manner to convert 5 and 6 to 3 and 4, moving the rest down? They are different types. Now, I guess I can consider myself an expert, and perhaps I could get away with it without resorting to Partition Magic, nor a full reinstall. But I wouldn't bet on it, nor on the average Joe doing it. I would certainly make a full backup, and is not easy for a 300 or 500 GB drive. That done, it would probably be easier and safer to fully reinstall on another drive and back, but I'd need to do the investment in spare hardware... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHurdutTMYHG2NR9URAs3EAJ9iDiLNJ3/8BN7MNGDoluTup82ujwCfSbPf r5c67SNLLpXCqpDC+jIIfxw= =3KOZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org