No Sectors left of 120GB Drive

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Mon Oct 2 16:28:41 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Tony Nelson wrote:

> At 11:02 AM -0400 10/2/06, Tom Diehl wrote:
>  ...
> >Will it let you make another primary partition?? I cannot remember
> >if you can have 2 extended partitions or not.
>
> I think one /can/, but it is contrary to specification (which you
> showed below), which says there can be only one Extended partition
> in a Basic partition table.  There can certainly be both an Extended
> and an LVM partition in a Basic partition table.

but wouldn't that LVM correspond to just a primary partition?  thus
not violating the general rule of only one extended partition?

rday




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