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Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
>
> I have a 20GB drive and don't want four 5GB partitions.  
> I already had four primary partitions but wanted to 
> delete one and make the fourth partition linux extended 
> instead.

I do not recommend using extended partitions.
Primary partitions are less problematical.

> The cfdisk that came with BL2 does not make extended 
> linux partitions.

Really?  That's news to me.

> I used the fdisk from busybox 1.3.2 that Karolis compiled.

I see.  That's not something I would recommend.
I found bugs in busybox 1.3 (and 1.2 too).
That's why BL3 still uses busybox 1.1

The full fdisk from Slackware would have been a
safer choice.  You need to be *very* careful when 
you create and format partitions.

Cheers,
Steven