Size of Extended partition changed

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 09:01:14PM -0400, Merv Curley wrote:
> When I run cfdisk it doesn't display the extended partition so there may not 
> be a way of editing the end sector of the Extended Partition.  Maybe you are 
> more familiar and know a secret or two.
> 
> With what you said I just tried parted for the first time, it shows the 
> extended and perhaps the resize command will do the job.  Any experience with 
> it?  I have none and the doc's are in 'info' format so I have only read the 
> man page so far.  I'm another who dislikes info a whole lot.

cfdisk just shows the actual partitions, since it knows the extended
partition is just a wrapper around all the logical partitions.  Just add
another logical partition and it should do the right thing in my
experience.

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