1 Topic by 4joeyirosh1

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Topic: Extend an extended partition into a primary partition

Hallo!I am running Debian 10.5 Buster 64 bit Linux.I have 4 primary partitions on my machine one of which includes an extended partition (check gparted screenshot attached) thus I cannot create any new partitions.

https://imgur.com/TPTut5C.jpg

I wanted to extend the extended partition /dev/sda4 to include primary partition /dev/sda3 so that now I have 3 primary partition and thus I can create a new primary partition.

Unfortunately,from gparted (even from bootable USB),I cannot extend the extended partition /dev/sda4 to include primary partition /dev/sda3 or move primary partition /dev/sda3/ into the extended partition.

How can I achieve what I wanted above to enable me create a new partition?

2 Reply by mfleetwo

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Re: Extend an extended partition into a primary partition

It is not possible to convert a primary partition into a logical partition and grow the extended partition.

Instead you will have to empty your data from  primary partition sda3, delete it and then grown extended partition sda4.