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Creating Extended Partitions and Logical Drives

Andrew Kaplan — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 10:20:56 GMT

I currently have four primary partitions on a diskarray and I need to reconfigure the filesystems to be more flexible. My plan is to delete one of the primary partitions, and then use fdisk to create an extended partition. Once that is done, I would then create several filesystems within the extended partition. I would then repeat the process for one of the other primary partitions. My ultimate goal is to have two primary partitions, and two extended partitions which, in turn, would have several filesystems within them. Is this feasible?

Re: Creating Extended Partitions and Logical Drives

Stuart Browne — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 17:57:06 GMT

Depending on how many file systems you actually want, yea.

Sounds good.

Re: Creating Extended Partitions and Logical Drives

Ragu_3 — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:28:26 GMT

Sounds good and it is possible. But, but...take a printout of your fdisk /dev/device `p' screen output on to paper and keep it aside in a safe place. You may require the partition size starting and ending values. Read the Large Disk HOWTO and move ahead.

Re: Creating Extended Partitions and Logical Drives

Adrien Carlyle_1 — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:05:27 GMT

you may also want to try using cfdisk, its a little bit nicer to work with than standard fdisk in GNU/linux