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Re: Can you grow a primary partition into unused extended partition spac
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: Can you grow a primary partition into unused extended partition space? |
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Wed, 1 Oct 2003 09:47:28 +1000 |
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:19:56PM -0700, John Dunn wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a dual-boot RH 9 /Windows 98 machine. I need
> more usable space for the Win98 games my kids want to
> install. I'd prefer to expand the primary fat32
> partition from 1309.987 to 4314.361, but can't find
> anything in parted that explains what happens if you
> try to increase the size of the primary into the
> extended space.
You can't have a primary partition overlap with an extended one.
You can resize the extended partition first, however.
Cheers,
Andrew