Re: repartitioning: joining two partitions
Hello,
Derrick, you're reply is very helpfull - but I've got
a new question based on the adjacency of partitions.
This is the partition table as it is:
hda: hda1
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 < hdb5 hdb6 >
the hda disk is where windows lives (for my dad)
the /tmp is on hdb3, /home is on /hdb5
the partition has an "extended" partition - or so was
it called - because when I made the partitions I was
using Redhat 8 - and their partition tool insisted on
creating an extended partition in order to have more
than 5 partitions - I still don't know why this should
be necessary but... well this is the situation.
As far as I understand the extended partition, /hdb4,
isn't a real partition so hdb3 would be next to hdb5 -
which means lvm would work.
Can you tell me wether this is correct (or, what the
real situation is with extended partitions ?)
Thanks,
Joris
--- Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dman@dman.ddts.net> wrote:
...
>
> One prerequisite for merging two physical partitions
> (without using
> lvm) is that they are adjacent.
>
> HTH,
> -D
>
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