Re: Disk Partitioning ? From a Newbie

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

Hi Jon

I think (and I'm no expert) that you need to create an extended 
partition after your primary, and then create the logical partitions 
within that.  On PC's I believe there is a maximum of 4 Primary 
partitions but a much higher maximum of logical partitions within the 
extended partition (somebody else may  confirm that there is no 
maximum).

HTH

Clive

On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 02:59  pm, Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS 
wrote:

> Hi All,
> I just read through the Linux Partition HowTo, but I must have missed 
> something. I have a 40GB IDE drive that I would like to partition 
> multiple times instead of using the basic swap, boot, rest-of-drive 
> scheme. After reading the documentation, I thought that I would try to 
> partition it with partitions for: BOOT, SWAP, /, VAR, USR, TMP, and 
> HOME. I tried numerous permutations of using Primary and Logical 
> partitions, but after initializing the SWAP and / partition, I always 
> get Mount Failed: Invalid Argument messages for the rest of the 
> partitions. I am doing the partitioning with cfdisk. I have tried the 
> following scenarios with no luck:
>
> SWAP = Primary, All Others = Logical
> SWAP = Primary, / = Primary, All Others = Logical
> SWAP = Primary, / = Primary, /boot = Primary, All Others = Logical
>
> Obviously, I am not grasping a very key concept here. Any help would 
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jon D. Irish
> BAE SYSTEMS