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tinhtruong

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 117

Cannot add new partition to existing extended partition with GParted

Here is my current partition layout:

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What I want is to create a new partition inside the extended partition /dev/sda4 with my unallocated space. When I right-click on the unallocated space and select New, GParted gave me this:

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It seems that GParted *think* that I want to create a primary partition (which is obviously impossible, because I've already had 4 primary partitions).
How can I add a new partition to my existing extended partition?
Any help would be appreciated!

Last edited by Inxsible (2010-12-21 20:12:14)

shulamy

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From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 456

Re: Cannot add new partition to existing extended partition with GParted

it's hard to see but i think the unallocated space is not in the extended partition.

i think you have to resize this partition to include the unallocated space.

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thisoldman

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: Cannot add new partition to existing extended partition with GParted

shulamy is correct, you must first resize your current extended partition, /dev/sda4, to include the unallocated space.

Gparted will not let you do this while /dev/sda4 is mounted.  You will probably have to resize using a live CD or USB drive.  Gparted is offered as a live CD at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php, and it's included on many other distributions' live CDs.