I used Ranish Partition Manager:
http://www.ranish.com/part/
It's an excellent tool for repartitioning, though it requires a
DOS-friendly boot disk (I used the Ultimate Boot Disk created from a
WinMe machine - http://www.startdisk.com/Web1/ubd/ubd.htm - note that
the UBD has Ranish included ).
I ended up setting my partitions like so:
0 MBR 0KB
1 Pri Unused 31KB
2> Pri 1 Windows NT NTFS ~6GB
3 Pri 3 VFAT Extended LBA (I chose Hidden) ~10.5GB
4 |- Log Linux ext2fs ~10GB
6 |- Log Linux swap ~500MB
7 |- Log Unused ~8MB
8 Pri 4 Windows FAT32 LBA (Share between Linux and Win2K) ~2GB
9 Pri 3 Windows NT NTFS ~20GB
10 Pri Unused ~3MB
I worry that you might have trouble marking your ext3 partition as
hidden (especially considering you'd need to use one of the "Hidden"
filesystem types that Ranish recognises, plus the ext3 partition would
be a logical partition embedded in a Primary partition, which it
probably isn't currently!). Ranish will at least let you see the
filesystem's current type identifier (0x82 or similar), which you might
want to take note of for later use.
Perhaps someone in the mailing list can provide a better resolution for
you than this hack-and-slash solution?
Cheers,
Duane
