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Rawn027
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 Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:06 am Post subject: Dell XPS Laptop |
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I am having problems with fdisk and this dell xps laptop. I am leaving the dell utility partition on the drive but then there is only room for 3 primary partitions...what can i use for an extended partition?
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Twist
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The hidden utility partition is probably marked as a primary. Since you can only have 4 primaries, that means you are locked up at that point.
Take one of your three available primaries and make it an extended/logical. You can subdivide that to your hearts content, Linux won't care. You can even boot Linux off an extended partition, assuming your bios isn't completely brain dead.
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Archangel1
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I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. The extended partition can contain a basically unlimited number of logical drives, which will look like partitions to Linux - ie. they all appear as hdax.
Not sure what Grub thinks about it - I'd suggest a small /boot primary and then chuck everything else into the extended, splitting it up into logical drives as needed. |
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