Moved to Debian

Tried a lot of linux distros, like Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mandrake, FC2 and finally moved to Debian Sarge. From what I have seen so far, it rocks. Only a minor gripe.

For some reason, the partition tool does not behave as I would expect it to. More likely to be my mistake than those of the folks at Debian, but this is what happens.I have an 80 GB HDD with 3 primary partitions (total about 20 GB) and an extended partition which covers the remaining 60 GB. I create the debian partitions in this extended partition, and dont allocate all the space. Instead, I leave some space unallocated. Now once the install is done, and I reboot and check, I find that the extended partition is truncated, to hold only the linux partitions. And since I have reached the max number of supported partitions on the HDD, I cannot create any new partitions in the free space.

The workaround ? Allocate the linux partitions, and put all the free space remaining into one partition. That way, its "inside" the extended partition, and I can chop and change later as necessary.