J de Boyne Pollard <j.deboynepollard@tesco.net> did eloquently scribble: > PT> The number of cylinder max is supposed to be 60801, but > PT> the extended partition max out to 46688 only. fdisk does > PT> not allow me to create any more primary, and I cannot > PT> convert the the remaining space between cylinder 46688 > PT> and 60801 to become part of the last extended partition. > Then use a partition table utility that can. Stop thinking that fdisk > is the only tool. parted's "resize" command is capable of resizing > type 0x05 partitions, as is Powerquest's^WSymantec's Partition Magic. fdisk is old, and on larger disks (can't remember the limit) it maxes out. This isn't entirely fdisk's fault, it just lacks support for a partition table with large enough fields. parted (and the various front ends) however, allow the creation of a different type of partition table called gpt which accomodates disks and raid array sizes into the terabytes. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | spike1@freenet.co.uk | "I'm alive!!! I can touch! I can taste! | |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| I can SMELL!!! KRYTEN!!! Unpack Rachel and | | in | get out the puncture repair kit!" | | Computer Science | Arnold Judas Rimmer- Red Dwarf | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:55:54 +0100, spike1@freenet.co.uk <spike1@freenet.co.uk> wrote: >J de Boyne Pollard <j.deboynepollard@tesco.net> did eloquently scribble: >> PT> The number of cylinder max is supposed to be 60801, but >> PT> the extended partition max out to 46688 only. fdisk does >> PT> not allow me to create any more primary, and I cannot >> PT> convert the the remaining space between cylinder 46688 >> PT> and 60801 to become part of the last extended partition. >> Then use a partition table utility that can. Stop thinking that fdisk >> is the only tool. parted's "resize" command is capable of resizing >> type 0x05 partitions, as is Powerquest's^WSymantec's Partition Magic. >fdisk is old, and on larger disks (can't remember the limit) it maxes out. >This isn't entirely fdisk's fault, it just lacks support for a partition >table with large enough fields. Cite please? Fdisk works just fine listing the partition table on my 750G drive although I used gparted to set it up as it does file system initialization and partition creation in one place.