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

This layout cannot be encapsulated because only one spare primary partition is available, the swap partition does not lie in the extended partition, and there is no free space in the extended partition for an additional logical partition.

Figure: Workaround by shrinking existing logical partitions shows a possible workaround by shrinking one or more of the existing file systems and the corresponding logical partitions.

Shrinking existing logical partitions frees up space in the extended partition for the private region. After reconfiguration, this root disk can be encapsulated.