Add an extended partition with disk druid

[James Olin Oden]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote:

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> On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:28:13 +0200 (CEST), Marco Ermini wrote:
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> > > > Disk Druid will automatically propose you to create an extended
> > > > partition when it's needed (i.e. when you already have 4 primary
> > > > partitions).
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> > > How does it do that? Does it delete one of the four primary
> > > partitions?
> > 
> > It did not need to delete a partition. Partitions are NOT created when you
> > run Disk Druid; you are just "projecting" a disk configuration, then you
> > have to "commit" the "project".
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> Let me rephrase. What does Disk Druid suggest when (quote) "you
> already have 4 primary partitions"? In that case the partition table
> is full, and Disk Druid cannot put an extended partition on the list
> of partitions to be created.
You would delete those partitions in disk druid, and then add the 
new partitions (if you did not want those partitions).
...james