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On Sunday 22 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Caveat: I have no idea why this doesn't work, but if you make sda4 an |
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> extended partition and create sda5 as a logical with exactly the same start |
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> and end as you describe above, you do in fact lose all data. Obviously |
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> there is a difference between a physical and a logical partition with the |
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> same location, but I don't know why this is. |
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I think that this is because the extended partition contains the extended |
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partition table at its boot sector. A primary partition at the same position |
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does not and therefore has a different offset. Having spent some interesting |
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white-knuckle-ride moments with testdisk, I realised that carelessly |
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switching between primary and extended/logical partitions is not something I |
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would like to try again - unless I am playing around in a test environment. |
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> Which is a pity, as 4 logical partitions is a little too constrictive, |
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Do you mean primary? |
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> I |
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> prefer the extra freedom to move things around with extended partitions. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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