On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:14:33AM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
> Is it not possible to use the standard WinNT Disk Administrator to
> archieve this size reduction of my extended partition?

If the last part of the extended partition isn't used, you should be able to
reduce it with the Disk Administrator, although I'm not sure (never tried)

> 
> BTW, The NetBSD installer (from floopy) prompts ...
> 
> Start (MB): 7
> Size (MB) : 43967
> End (MB)  : 43975
> 
> The last part of my extended partition does not contain any logical
> partition. I plan to use this portion for NetBSD. Is it not possible
> to reduce the size of the extended partition using the NetBSD
> installer I use. I would like to enter something like ...
> 
> Start (MB): 7
> Size (MB) : 43000
> End (MB)  : 43008
> 
> Does this not destroy the logical partitions at the beginning of the
> extended partition (the first 35 GB only are used, however the entire
> disk is declared as extended partition)?

No, you can change the extended partition without destroying the partitions
inside it.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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