On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:56:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > Now, when =I= go into my /dev/hda with GNU parted, or fdisk, or what have > you, what do I see? That's right, 4 primary partitions: the max you can have. > > Dumb question is: can I change my root partition to type extended and > create two logical partitions (one holding the original root stuff, the > other for Linux from Scratch things) within it? Without destroying my > beloved Debian system?
That should be okay. AFTER you have backed up everything on your root partition that you do not want to lose if not all goes well, use fdisk to print the existing partition geometry, note down all figures exactly, delete /dev/hda1 (or whatever number is mounted as /), then create /dev/hda 1 as an extended partition with the same start and end as the former hda1 logical partition. Lastly, create a new hda5 with the same start and end as the old and new hda1. Try out partition after a reboot (don't forget to edit lilo.conf or menu.lst and /etc/fstab). If it works you can re-size the / partition and split it if you like. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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