Re: howmany partitions per disk possible?

Tony Arnold <tony.arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 13:10 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:

I've already shrunk the PV, I now want to shrink the partition.

fdisk is the tool to use for this - you'll delete the partition
and create a new one, which starts at the same spot. Finito -
partition has been shrinked. :)

fdisk scares me rigid!

No need to. Just be careful - but that's a given, of course.

There seems to be plenty of scope for wiping the
whole disk if one is not careful,

Not really. Just don't type "o" :)

In the mean time, I've taken the coward's way out and re-installed.
Given my partitions were peculiar anyway (one extended containing two
logicals, no primaries at all), it was probably the right thing to do.

Hm? What's strange about this? Extended partitions always only contain
logical partitions. They cannot, by definition, contain anything else.

Alexander Skwar
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