From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: The disk partitioning program that comes with Anaconda does not allow extended partitions to be created. For example, it is not possible to start with an unpartitioned drive, say /dev/hda, and create /dev/hda1 as an extended partition which fills the entire drive and contains the logical partitions /dev/hda5,6,7. I realize that you can do Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a command shell and do fdisk /dev/hda. One problem with this is that, on two of my newer machines, Ctrl-Alt-F7 does not get you back to the installer, it just hangs. Another problem is that this is not an elegant solution. I respectively suggest that the paritioning part of the installer be changed to allow an explicit use of fdisk. I believe Red Hat 6, 7, 8 had this feature. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try to use Anaconda (Disk Druid?) to create an extended partition. 2.There appears no way to do it. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional info:
"Extended" partitions are an implementation detail and are created on demand as needed.