Extended partition resized during installation

[Ulrich Schweitzer <schweitzer@ipf.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Hi everybody,

I recently installed Debian Etch and it seems the installer resized my 
extended partition to fit the size of the logical volumes without asking me 
about it.

I installed Debian in addition to a Fedora installation which was already 
installed on one of my two hard drives. Both my drives had an extended 
partition that covered the whole drives and various logical volumes that 
didn't fill the partion but left same spare space at the end. I created 
additional logical volumes to install Debian in on one of my drives (still 
leaving spare space in the partition), booted the Installation CD and used 
the partitioning tool just to select the newly created volumes as 
installation target. I didn't create or remove any partitions or volumes 
and I didn't touch the other drive at all.

The installation went fine and I now have a working Debian Etch which is 
great but I just realized that the size of extended partitiones on both 
drives correspond to the logical volumes. There is no more empty space in 
the partitions. The Debian installer must have shrinked those partitions to 
fit the volumes.

Why did it do this?
And more importantly: How do I reverse it?

So far I have used fdisk for all my partitioning needs.

Thanks in advance
Ulrich
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Institut für Plasmaforschung, Universität Stuttgart
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