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wqawasmi

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Registered: 2010-03-05

Posts: 4

Can't create extended partition!

Hello,

cfdisk is not allowing me to create an extended partition. I have 3 partitions and need another 3 for Arch (boot, swap, root).

When I go into cfdisk, I see the free space I have, when I press "New", I get Primary or Logical. I first chose Primary, then went into "Type" and pressed 5 to make it Extended.

I get the "Cannot change FS type to extended" error.

I tried again with the Logical option and still the same error.

Help?

Last edited by wqawasmi (2010-03-05 13:30:43)

n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 956

Re: Can't create extended partition!

Show the output of fdisk -l.

Last edited by n0dix (2010-03-05 13:38:39)

wqawasmi

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Registered: 2010-03-05

Posts: 4

Re: Can't create extended partition!

    Device   Boot        Start      End      Blocks       Id      System
/dev/sda1    *           1           13        102400      7      HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2                13         96105    771855360     7      HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3                108853  121601  102401024  83    Linux

I know the above is formated wrong but I tried my best

Last edited by wqawasmi (2010-03-05 13:47:18)