Fedora 14 installation on extended partition?

[rednaxula]

I noticed I wasn't able to (at least when I checked) create an extended partition during the F14 install. So I used the Gparted live CD to create an extended partition and leave free space to create fedora on.

Fedora recognized this fine and I was able to create the / and swap partitions as logical partitions in one extended partition, which the installer recognized.
Now Fedora 14 boots fine, as does windows 7. I checked on windows disk management, fedoras default volume utility and on the Gparted live CD and for some reason it shows the partitions as primary, e.g.:
Sda1 Windows
Sda 2 fedora 14
Sda3 swap

Instead of sda2 and sda3 being in an extended partition. Is this the disk utility displaying the information incorrectly, or has Fedora 14 installer installed the partitions as primary??

[stoat]

To me, those device names indicate that they are primary partitions. The device names assigned to logical partitions start numbering at 5. The Linux utility fdisk will reveal that. And in the Windows Disk Management utility (W2K, XP, Vista, W7), an extended partition is depicted in the graphic display as bright green, logical partitions inside that are bright blue, and primary partitions are dark blue. Who knows exactly how it happened, but you appear to have three primary partitions based on what you posted. Anyway, it should work okay.

[rednaxula]

To me, those device names are for primary partitions. The device names assigned to logical partitions start numbering at 5.

I know what it should look like as an extended partition, with logical partitions and how it looks in the disk management tool but I was showing how IT IS showing up instead of how IT SHOULD.
I already stated that it did not create logical partitions and that it shows primary partitions.
Obviously the installation has created primary partitions instead of my ideal setup for some reason, even though it recognized that I created logical partitions in the installation window.

[stoat]

I know what it should look like as an extended partition, with logical partitions and how it looks in the disk management tool but I was showing how IT IS showing up instead of how IT SHOULD.


I already stated that it did not create logical partitions and that it shows primary partitions.


Obviously the installation has created primary partitions instead of my ideal setup for some reason...Well, I certainly didn't intend to insult or irritate you. Sorry.


Is this the disk utility displaying the information incorrectly,...No, IMO. I have never had fdisk, GParted, or the Windows Disk Management utility do such a thing as displaying logical partitions as primary. And you said all three are in agreement that you have three primary partitions. I also have never seen an operating system enumerate a logical partition with a number lower than 5. However, I read here examples of people screwing up partitions with utilities and installers all the time.


...or has Fedora 14 installer installed the partitions as primary?? IMO, and until you post something indicating otherwise, Fedora was installed in primary partitions.

[rednaxula]

Well, I certainly didn't intend to insult or irritate you. .
Sorry if I came across as annoyed, I wasn't, I was clarifying what I already stated.

I have come to the conclusion that fedora 14 installed primary partitions, as it shows this in all of the disk utilities.

Would you be able to tell me exactly how to create an extended partition in the fedora 14 installer or create the logical partitions (if I create extended in gparted beforehand)?

I'm having trouble finding out how to do this on the f14 installer, which is rather strange.

[stoat]

To me, what you described in the first post sounds like it would have worked. It's what I do anyway. If you intend to try again, then I would create the extended partition again with GParted as you want it. Then, in Anaconda, choose the partition option "Create custom layout". The next page is the disk druid, and I am confident that if you choose the free space inside the extended partition that it will create /dev/sda5, /dev/sda6, /dev/sda7, and so on, there. After each one is created in that little pop-up window, you are returned to the disk druid page again where you can confirm that everything is shaping up the way you want before you agree for them to be created and formatted. I've never had Anaconda do something different from what the disk druid page displayed.