[Tfug] gparted problem

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

Hi. Don,

On Tue, December 22, 2009 2:07 am, Bexley Hall wrote:
> Hi Earl,
>
>> I have a hard drive that I used for testing some distributions.  As some
>> distros have some very strong ideas about partitioning the final
>> partitioning looks like this:
>>
>> | sda1   |  sda5         | sda2            |  sda3   |
>> | boot   |  Ubuntu 9.10  | Ubuntu 8.02     |  Swap   |
>
> Is this *physically* how the partitions are laid out?
> I.e., are you sure that the first sector of sda2 is
> "physically" adjacent to the last sector in sda5

Shorter answer ... Yes.

Long answer ... Yes, because:
sda1 sectors 63-417869
sda4 sectors 417690-39070079
sda5 sectors 417753-39070079
unallocated sectors 39070080-73882934
sda3 sectors 73882435-73882934

>> Of course, sda5 is in sda4.
>>
>> I cleared sda2 which is now unallocated.  I tried to
>> expand sda5 into the
>> space formerally occupied by sda2.  gparted is unable
>> to do this.  Does
>> anyone know if this is because sda5 is a logical partition
>> and sda2 was a primary partition?
>>
>> Earl
>>
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