Re: Extended partition creation policy ?

2006-09-08 Thread Peter Samuelson
[David Balazic] > I noticed, that when the debian installer is instructed to create two > partitions, whose joint size is less than the size of the disk, then > it creates one primary partition and one logical partition inside an > extended partition. cfdisk does the same thing - however, it also

RE: Extended partition creation policy ?

2006-09-07 Thread David Balazic
say so. Regards, David > -Original Message- > From: Frans Pop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 4:53 PM > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Cc: David Balazic > Subject: Re: Extended partition creation policy ? > > > Hello

Re: Extended partition creation policy ?

2006-09-07 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Donnerstag 07 September 2006 14:14 schrieb David Balazic: > The issue is, that this extended partition has the size of the logical > partition and not the maximum possible size (the entire empty disk space > plus the logical parition). > > This layout seems to be special to debian, since all oth

Re: Extended partition creation policy ?

2006-09-07 Thread Frans Pop
Hello David, On Thursday 07 September 2006 14:14, David Balazic wrote: > I noticed, that when the debian installer is instructed to create > two partitions, whose joint size is less than the size of the disk, > then it creates one primary partition and one logical partition inside > an extended pa

Extended partition creation policy ?

2006-09-07 Thread David Balazic
Hi! (please CC me on replies, as I am not subscribed to the list; but will check its archives every now and then) I noticed, that when the debian installer is instructed to create two partitions, whose joint size is less than the size of the disk, then it creates one primary partition and one log