Hi,
My solution:
man fdisk ;-)
It said "don't use fdisk because it's buggy" (!!) and also "use cfdisk
instead".
Which I did. It behaved a little bit more predicatable.
Thanks anyway. ;-)
Gustav
Gustav Schaffter wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have 9 partitions on my hda. Two primary and one extended. The
> extended 'contains' my six Linux partitions.
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1247 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 2 13 96358+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda2 14 1247 9912105 5 Extended
> /dev/hda3 * 1 1 8001 a OS/2 Boot Manager
> /dev/hda5 14 16 24066 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 17 341 2610531 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 342 666 2610531 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 667 928 2104483+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda9 929 944 128488+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda10 945 1247 2433816 83 Linux
>
> I'd like to remove one of the existing partitions (hda8) and replace it
> with a new partition, a lot smaller than the existing one plus one
> entirely new partition. This would logically split the existing
> partition in two new partitions.
>
> I use fdisk (and so far I haven't saved anything, since it doesn't do
> what I'd expected it to do.)
>
> I can delete hda8. When I print the remainder, I can see that hda9 has
> been renumbered to hda8 and hda10 has become hda9. (!!)
>
> Is this working as expected?
>
> To verify the above, I then created a new hda8 with the same start (667)
> and end (928). This new partition became hda10. (!!)
>
> Is this working as expected?
>
> So what I'm facing here is that I have to delete hda8 and accept that
> hda9 becomes hda8 plus that hda10 becomes hda9. I can then recreate two
> new partitions within the range of 667 - 928 and they will become hda10
> plus hda11. From there, I'd have to make the equvalent changes to my
> /etc/fstab.
>
> Is this working as expected?
>
> I just want to check before I save and exit fdisk. ;-) I'm sure you
> understand why. :-)
>
> Best regards
> Gustav
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