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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:15:07 -0500 > Brandon Simmons <Brandon Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 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 > > -- > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 > > > _______________________________________________ Bug-parted mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
