Long story but basically: Installed a 250GB second HDD (hdb) Partitioned the drive as 3 primaries and an extended partition (hdb4) The extended partition (hdb4) then divided into 5 extended partitions all with different linux distros on. Only then did I realise that my (old) BIOS only recognised 137GB of the disc. So I reflashed the BIOS (my first time so that was "fun") and now it recognised the full 250GB. But... I tried to add more extended partitions under hdb4 and Gparted won't do so saying I have the full set of primary partitions. Is there a way of expanding hdb4 so it uses all the remaining part of the disc? Cheers Dave
davesurrey wrote: > Long story but basically: > > Installed a 250GB second HDD (hdb) > Partitioned the drive as 3 primaries and an extended partition (hdb4) > The extended partition (hdb4) then divided into 5 extended partitions all > with different linux distros on. > > Only then did I realise that my (old) BIOS only recognised 137GB of the > disc. > So I reflashed the BIOS (my first time so that was "fun") and now it > recognised the full 250GB. > > But... > I tried to add more extended partitions under hdb4 and Gparted won't do so > saying I have the full set of primary partitions. > > Is there a way of expanding hdb4 so it uses all the remaining part of the > disc? gparted should do that for you. -- http://SnapAndScribble.com
"davesurrey" <dave@antispam.invalid> wrote in message news:4857d32d$0$2477$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk... > Long story but basically: > > Installed a 250GB second HDD (hdb) > Partitioned the drive as 3 primaries and an extended partition (hdb4) > The extended partition (hdb4) then divided into 5 extended partitions all > with different linux distros on. > > Only then did I realise that my (old) BIOS only recognised 137GB of the > disc. > So I reflashed the BIOS (my first time so that was "fun") and now it > recognised the full 250GB. > > But... > I tried to add more extended partitions under hdb4 and Gparted won't do so > saying I have the full set of primary partitions. > > Is there a way of expanding hdb4 so it uses all the remaining part of the > disc? > > Cheers > Dave Well just as soon as I wrote this I noticed that I could see in Nautilus one of the drives under the extended partition, even though GParted was saying they were all unmounted. So I used the cmd line to umount it and then was able to expand the partition. Sorry for this but at least this may be a headup to others to not always trust GParted's reporting..although I have to say its been one of my most faithful tools to date. Dave
On 17/06/2008 in message <4857d32d$0$2477$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> davesurrey wrote: >Partitioned the drive as 3 primaries and an extended partition (hdb4) >The extended partition (hdb4) then divided into 5 extended partitions all >with different linux distros on. Probably 5 logical drives on hdb4??? >I tried to add more extended partitions under hdb4 and Gparted won't do so >saying I have the full set of primary partitions. > >Is there a way of expanding hdb4 so it uses all the remaining part of the >disc? I would use Partition Magic in Windows to expand the extended partition (hdb4) so there is space for more logical drives. I don't know if similar utilities exist for Linux but I'm sure they must. -- Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation
"Jeff Gaines" wrote in message news:xn0frjk7nbd5o64002@news.individual.net... > On 17/06/2008 in message <4857d32d$0$2477$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> > davesurrey wrote: > >>Partitioned the drive as 3 primaries and an extended partition (hdb4) >>The extended partition (hdb4) then divided into 5 extended partitions all >>with different linux distros on. > > Probably 5 logical drives on hdb4??? > Yes, that's what I should have said.. 5 logical not 5 extended partitions. >>I tried to add more extended partitions under hdb4 and Gparted won't do so >>saying I have the full set of primary partitions. >> >>Is there a way of expanding hdb4 so it uses all the remaining part of the >>disc? > > I would use Partition Magic in Windows to expand the extended partition > (hdb4) so there is space for more logical drives. I don't know if similar > utilities exist for Linux but I'm sure they must. Since my orig post I've fixed it with GParted which I guess is Linux's equiv of Partition Magic. Thanks anyway. Dave
