Figure: Boot and swap configured on two primary partitions, and no free space in the extended partition shows an example of an unsupported layout with boot and swap configured on two primary partitions, and no existing free space in the extended partition.

This layout cannot be encapsulated because only one spare primary partition is available, and neither the swap partition nor the free space lie within the extended partition.

Figure: Workaround by growing the extended partition shows a simple workaround that uses a partition configuration tool to grow the extended partition into the free space on the disk.

Care should be taken to preserve the boundaries of the logical partition that contains the root file system. After reconfiguration, this root disk can be encapsulated.