Size of Extended partition changed

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 12:38:04PM -0400, Merv Curley wrote:
> The computer in question is another one, but here is your list  modified
> 
> Total cylinders 10000
> 
>  hda1   primary  cylinder 1 - 100
>  hda2   primary cylinder 101 - 1000
>  hda3   primary  cylinder 1001 - 2000
>  hda4   extended  cylinder 2001 - 5000   [was  10000]
> 
>  hda5   logical  cylinder 2001 - 2500
>  hda6   logical  cylinder 2501 - 5000
> 
>  free space    cylinder 5001 - 10000
> 
> Can you visualize it now? 

Try cfdisk.  I have seen a number of partition editing tools be too
stupid to realize they can add to the existing extended partition.

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