Any easy, safe way to go about changing an extended partition full of data (logical drive) to a primary partition? Windows XP Pro.<BR><BR>Thanks in advance.

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As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...