Partitioning problems

[pauldoc]

Hi,

How do I edit my partitions using disk druid (cant use fdisk cause it will only allow you to create 4) without re-installing?

any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul

[MBMarduk]

4?
You prolly made 4 PRIMARY partitions.

AFAIK IDE (or HDDs??) only allow for 4 primary partitions.
Primary partitions can be subdivided into EXTENDED partitions.

IIRC IDE theoretically allows for a total of 65 partitions on a HDD or 13 in practise (or maybe it was SCSI :confused: )

LONG STORY SHORT:
1) DELETE a PRI
2) MAKE 2 or more EXT inside it

check out MY HDD:

----------------------------- | | HDA1 (C :) (23.6% of total) | Windows 98 | |---------------------------- \ | | | HDA5 / (46.9%) | | | |---------------------------- \__HDA2(28%) | / | HDA6 /usr/local(41.2%) | | | |==============================|--HDA7 (1.6%) | HDA8 SWAP (11.2%) | |---------------------------- / | | | | HDA3 /home (48.4%) | | | -----------------------------


Here HDA 1,2 and 3 are PRImaries and 5,6,7 and 8 are EXTendeds INSIDE PRI#2 (HDA2).

Hope this helps.

PS. HDA7 is soo small I don't use it (ignore it), it's a left-over from my "ignorant newbie" days. :)