On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 13:41 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
Hello,
I just got a SSD (not virgin), but I cannot create an extended partition.
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 477 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 4D6479F4-D61A-4DEA-8F60-35EFBFE445C2
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 1538047 1536000 750M EFI System
/dev/sdb2 1538048 12023807 10485760 5G Microsoft reserved
Is there a reason?
gpt disk/SSDs do not have extended partitions
Use gdisk to add extra partition(s)
Up to 255 partitions maybe
And/Or blast it away with dd and start again