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Re: Disk Partitioning ? From a Newbie



On Mon, 5 May 2003 14:46:46 -0500
"Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS" <Jon.Irish@AMD.ARMY.MIL> wrote:

> 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?

Assuming you want the extended partition to take up the rest of the drive,
highlight the free space and choose New. It will assume you want to use all
the free space, so press enter.

Then go to Type, and choose 05. That makes the extended partition.

>From there you should be able to create logical partitions within the
extended partition.

Kevin



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