On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:27:56AM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
> I have a harddisk (NTFS WinNT 4.0) where I wouldlike to install NetBSD
> at the end. The entire disk is declared as "extended partition".
> As long as I don't reduce the size of this extended partition, I can't
> install NetBSD.
> 
> How can I archive this?
> 
> Is the data inside the extended partition (logical drives and primary
> partition) lost?

Commercial programs such as `Partition Magic' can perform this resize
operation without data loss, as well as providing many other useful
features (like move partitions, change partitions from extended ->
primary, etc).