At 13:02:44 on Saturday Saturday 03 October 2009, "Carlos E. R."
On Friday, 2009-10-02 at 19:54 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
where/how? you can't make more than two more partition, the two remaining primaries.
So far, the only primary on the system is the Boot Manager, all the rest are logical. If I install other OS(s), its/their partitions will also be logical.
Not true.
You wrote this table:
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System /dev/sda1 * 1 1 8001 a OS/2 Boot Manager /dev/sda2 2 9479 76132035 5 Extended /dev/sda5 2 271 2168743 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 272 4238 31684896 83 Linux /dev/sda7 4239 9479 42098301 83 Linux
There are two primaries there: sda2 is also a primary.
This is true. But I never asked for sda3 and sda4, let alone wished for any additional primary partitions. And after the installation finished, I deleted those two.
A manual partitioner, such as fdisk, can now only create two more partitions, sda3 and 4. No more. It is possible to extend sda2, then add inside sda8, 9, 10, etc. But that is usually a manual and dangerous operation. Some partitioners handle that situation automatically, perhaps dfsee.
It does, transparently.
But I have already showed that there are no sda3 or sda4. They are figments of a diseased BIOS (if not of the installer, which I doubt). They don't exist. You saw the fdisk table.
No, they are the proposed scheme the suse installer made. Not yet written.
And now they are gone, in Partition Heaven. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org