RE: Disk Partitioning ? From a Newbie (SOLVED)
I just found a note in O'Reilly's Learning Debian book that states
cfdisk does not let you create extended partitions. Thus, when the
installer got to that point, I Alt + F1'ed to a prompt, and ran the
fdisk utility. Everything is now partitioned the way I wanted it, and
the install is proceeding.
Why is cfdisk included with the install routine if it does not support
extended partitions? It seems to me that I am not the only person trying
to perform an install with multiple/extended partitions.
Thank you everyone for your help,
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 2:47 PM
To: Clive Menzies
Cc: debian users
Subject: RE: Disk Partitioning ? From a Newbie
Clive,
I'm trying to do this for a Debian install with cfdisk. I do not see any
options for Extended partitions within the cfdisk utility. How do I
create the extended partition?
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Clive Menzies [mailto:clive@clivemenzies.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 1:51 PM
To: Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS
Cc: debian users
Subject: Re: Disk Partitioning ? From a Newbie
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
>
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