catonano
July 19th, 2009, 11:25 AM
Hello people,
I hope this is the right place for such a question. If it's not, I'm sorry, I apologize.
The subject says it all. I have 2 primary partitons on my drive:
/dev/sda3 is an extended partiton and contains a logical partitioon for the swap and another logical partition for my Ubuntu installation
/dev/sda2 is a primary one, it used to contain XP now it's formatted in ext3 and I use it for data dumps
I'd LOVE to be able to convert /dev/sda2 to an extended partiton and inside that I'd put another bunch of logical partitions because I'd love to install Arch Linux also, to experience a different distro.
Now, the partitions editor doesn't allow me to do that. There's a menu item but it's greyed out and not available.
I don't see why. :-( What am I missing ?
Thanks so much for any hint
Catonano
I hope this is the right place for such a question. If it's not, I'm sorry, I apologize.
The subject says it all. I have 2 primary partitons on my drive:
/dev/sda3 is an extended partiton and contains a logical partitioon for the swap and another logical partition for my Ubuntu installation
/dev/sda2 is a primary one, it used to contain XP now it's formatted in ext3 and I use it for data dumps
I'd LOVE to be able to convert /dev/sda2 to an extended partiton and inside that I'd put another bunch of logical partitions because I'd love to install Arch Linux also, to experience a different distro.
Now, the partitions editor doesn't allow me to do that. There's a menu item but it's greyed out and not available.
I don't see why. :-( What am I missing ?
Thanks so much for any hint
Catonano