Will deleteing the primary parition of a disk, or changing it to an extended partition cause existing data to be lost?

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Issue

A new extended volume is needed, but there are 4 Primary partitions already present. How can the additional disk space be used?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, 6.x

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