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

[Brandon Simmons]

Ah, I see I did not look closely at the example in the manual. I
originally tried to create a primary partition but encountered strange
bugs/crashes in previous versions of parted, and in the current
version this is what I get:

(parted) mkpart primary ext3 25816 32812
Partition type?  [logical]? primary
Partition type?  [logical]?
File system type?  [ext2]?
etc...

If I hit enter through all the prompts it prints: "Error: Can't have
overlapping partitions". So is the only way to do what I want to do
then to make an extended and logical partition?

Thanks,
Brandon


On 1/13/06, Patrick Leslie Polzer <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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