Re: problem with creating new partition from free space from partition resize

[Patrick Leslie Polzer]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:15:07 -0500
Brandon Simmons <Brandon Simmons <address@hidden>> wrote:

 | I have shrunk an ext3 partition so that I have a few gigs of free
 | space between 1 & 2 which I would like to partition (in v1.6.15):
This version ist ages old.  I highly suggest to upgrade.

 | /----------------------\
 | Using /dev/hda
 | (parted) print
 | Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38154.375 megabytes
 | Disk label type: msdos
 | Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
 | 1          0.031  25815.388  primary   ext3        boot
 | 2      32812.449  33840.043  primary   linux-swap
 | 3      33840.044  33942.019  primary   ext3
 | 4      33942.019  38154.375  extended
 | 5      33942.050  38154.375  logical               lvm
 | \----------------------/
 | 
 | However when I run:
 | 
 | (parted) mkpart logical ext3 25816 32812
You cannot create a logical partition outside of an extended partition.
The only thing I wonder about is why Parted is not saying so clearly.

~ Leslie

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