On Jan 30,  7:25pm, pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (Pavel Cahyna) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: an fdisk that supports extended partitions

It is probably broken for i386 because it gets confused by the c partition.
I'll take a look at it.

christos

| Hello,
| 
| > ?       print this menu
| > C       make partitions contiguous
| > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 
| that doesn't do what I expect:
| 
| partition> P
| 16 partitions:
| #        size    offset     fstype  [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
|  a:   1804768        32     4.2BSD   1024  8192   114   # (Cyl.    0*- 2399)
|  c:   2074848        32     unused      0     0         # (Cyl.    0*- 2759*)
|  d:   2074880         0     unused      0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 2759*)
| partition> C
| Automatically adjust partitions [no]: y
| partition> b
| Filesystem type [?] [unused]: swap
| Start offset [0c, 0s, 0M]: 
| Partition size ('$' for all remaining) [0c, 0s, 0M]: $
|  b:   2074880   1804800       swap                      # (Cyl. 2400 - 5159*)
| 
| 
| I want the newly created parition (b) to begin where the previous
| partition (a) ends. Fdisk does that, at least David's improved version.
| 
| BTW, I don't understand what the "C" command is supposed to do.
| 
| Thanks	Pavel
-- End of excerpt from Pavel Cahyna