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[Andrew Clausen]

Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 08:13:50 +1000
From: Andrew Clausen <address@hidden>
To: Larry Williams <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Unable to align partition properly
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In-Reply-To: <address@hidden>; from address@hidden on Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 
04:40:33PM -0500

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 04:40:33PM -0500, Larry Williams wrote:
> I've just been lurking, trying to understand this as well as other problems 
> posted here. What confuses me is, if his extended partition, /dev/hda2 is 
> from 10 to 2421, then how is it his /dev/hda17 ends at 2436 ?

That's the problem!  It shouldn't be like that in the first place.

> I'm confused and thinking gives me a headache.

I'm trying to think of a better solution...

Options:
* automatically grow the extended partition to contain the logical
partitions

* remove the illegal logical partition

* ask?

Andrew