Re: partitioning help
On 2005-05-16, Adam Majer penned:
> Franklin Parlamis wrote:
>
>> i tried to partition my hard drive for a debian woody install. it
>> is just south of 80 Gb and IDE (from a Compaq EVO D510 I am
>> tranferring from Windows platform). i wanted to go with 6
>> partitions, which would require using an extended type physical
>> drive to put the logical drives in. using cfdisk, i made hda1
>> bootable and type 83 (2 Gb), hda2 type 82 (10 Gb). but when i
>> tried to make hda3 an extended type (05, i believe) it would not
>> let me. any thoughts? my bios is compaq 68602 v2.20.
>>
> You don't make the extended partition. With cfdisk, you create
> either Primary or Logical partitions. This question is asked when
> you create a new partition. You can only have one block of logical
> partitions. If you try to mix them up too much you might end up with
> unusable disk space (until you repartition your drive)
>
To follow up on this,
If you have access to parted, you may find that it's a friendlier way
to partition and format a disk. The help command actually is
helpful, and the error messages when it won't let you do something
are also pretty clear.
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monique
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