topic Re: fdisk help in Operating System - Linux

fdisk help

Ragni Singh — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:53:21 GMT

Hi all, I need to create several 40g partitions.

When I do fdisk, new for part, when it asks me for size, do I just say +40g, or how do I specify 40gig size. I have a 404g space but I am only able to create 4 partitions and only 1 extended partition. Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. Any help is appreciated.

Re: fdisk help

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:24:28 GMT

To specify a 40 GB partition use:

+40000M

You should create 3 primary paritions, one extended partition that uses the whole disk, and then logical units of 40 GB each.

Re: fdisk help

Ragni Singh — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:48:01 GMT

How would I do this..

I have a total of 404gigs. 53546 cylinders. I need a total of 10 partitions of 40gigs and one part.. of 100gigs.

Thanks and points will be assigned.

Re: fdisk help

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:39:47 GMT

Create the partitions in this way:

run fdisk:

n (new)
p (primary)
first cylinder (accept default)
last cylinder +40000M

n (new)
p (primary)
first cylinder (accept default)
last cylinder +40000M

n (new)
p (primary)
first cylinder (accept default)
last cylinder +40000M

n (new)
e (extended)
first cylinder (accept default)
last cylinder (accept default)

n (new)
(You wont be prompted if you want primary, extended or logical unit because logical units is all you can create)
first cylinder (accept default)
last cylinder +40000M

n (new)
(You wont be prompted if you want primary, extended or logical unit because logical units is all you can create)
first cylinder (accept default)
last cylinder +40000M

And so on until you create all your partitions. Use (w) to save the changes.

Re: fdisk help

Ragni Singh — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:00:28 GMT

Thanks a bunch. I got it the the tee. You get 10 points and maybe more.