[ILUG] [Kinda OT] Unable to create new partition.

[John Mc Donald]

Hi,

I have a bit of a problem with disk partitions on disk which is shared
between Linux and Win95. The problem is that I have a single 6Gig disk,
with a DOS primary partition and then an extended partition that
contains my Linux root and swap partitions. There is still 2Gigs of
space left on the disk!!

I have pasted in the information below from Win95s fdisk. I now want to
create an extra windows partition but Win95's fdisk won't let me create
a primary, extended partition (since one of each already exists), or a
logical partition (since the extended is full).

<fdisk info>
                          Display Partition Information

    Current fixed disk drive: 1

    Partition  Status   Type    Volume Label  Mbytes   System   Usage
     C: 1         A    PRI DOS                 2047   FAT16       33%
        2              EXT DOS                 2204               36%



    Total disk space is  6181 Mbytes (1 Mbyte = 1048576 bytes)

</fdisk info>

Is there anyway of getting around this (bar the obvious partition
shifting method)? Is this just a case of fdisk being crap or is it
impossible to have two (or more) primary dos partitions?

I can send anyone more info if they need it.

TIA,
John.

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John Mc Donald,
Dept. of Computer Science,
National University of Ireland,
Maynooth,
Co. Kildare,
Ireland.

Email : johnmcd at cs.may.ie
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