Creating Extended Partitions and Logical Drives

[Andrew Kaplan]

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?

[Stuart Browne]

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

Sounds good.

[Ragu_3]

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.

[Adrien Carlyle_1]

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