Hello, I have a problem. on a laptop with one disk containing one primary and one extended partition with a Debian Sqeeze install (x86). The partitions in the extended partition are /usr /home /var and /tmp (ext3). I wrote down the cylinders and sector data. Then I unmounted all partitions in single user mode.
I deleted the extended partition and made a new one with a smaller size. Then I tried to repartition the old partitions with the sector data I wrote down. I can fill in the first one correctly but the second one starts with a sector number different than it should be so I can't go on to install the best OS on the planet.
Fdisk works with two different methods, cylinders and sectors, and I tried them both with the same result.
How can I shrink the extended partition to install FreeBSD?
I deleted the extended partition and made a new one with a smaller size. Then I tried to repartition the old partitions with the sector data I wrote down. I can fill in the first one correctly but the second one starts with a sector number different than it should be so I can't go on to install the best OS on the planet.
Fdisk works with two different methods, cylinders and sectors, and I tried them both with the same result.
How can I shrink the extended partition to install FreeBSD?