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>Appendix: Using cfdisk to partition your harddisk</TITLE
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>15. Appendix: Using cfdisk to partition your harddisk</H1
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>15.1. Hard disk names</H2
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> SCSI harddisks are named with sdx, where x is a hardisk
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letter. The disk with the lowest SCSI ID on the first
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controller will become sda, the next lower sdb, an so on.
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> If you have IDE harddisks, they are called hda, hdb, hdc, and
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so on instead, where hda is the master disk on the first
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controller, hdb is the slave disk on the first controller, hdc
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is the master disk on the second controller, and so on.
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NAME="HARDDISK-PARTITIONS"
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>15.2. Harddisk partitions</H2
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> GNU/Linux systems often uses a partition scheme inherited from
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MS-DOS. With this, a harddisk can have up to four primary
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partitions. If you want more, you have to make one of these an
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extended partition where you can make several logical
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partitions. The partitions are named with the disk they belong
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to, and a number. The first primary partition on the first
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SCSI disk is therefore sda1, the second primary partition is
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sda2, and so on. The first and second logical partition on an
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extended partition on the first SCSI disk is sda5 and sda6,
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and so on. If this makes absolutely no sense to you at all,
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try to read <A
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HREF="more-on-partitioning.html"
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>Section 16</A
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>15.3. Starting cfdisk</H2
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> you start cfdisk from the command line with the command
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> cfdisk /dev/sdx
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where x is the SCSI hardisk letter, like a, b, c, d, etc. So if I
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want to partition the first harddisk on the SCSI controller, I'll
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enter the command
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> cfdisk /dev/sda
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NAME="USING-CFDISK"
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>15.4. Using cfdisk</H2
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>15.4.1. The user interface</H3
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> After you have started cfdisk you'll get an interface where
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the current partition table is listed with the names and
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some data about each partition, and some command buttons on
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the bottom of the screen. To change between partitions, use
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the up and down arrow keys. To change between commands, use
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the left and right arrow keys.
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>15.4.2. Deleting a partition</H3
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> To delete an existing partition, highlight it with the up and down
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keys, select the <EM
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>Delete</EM
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> command with the left and right arrow
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keys, and press Enter.
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>15.4.3. Making a new partition</H3
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> To make a new partition, select the <EM
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>New</EM
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command with the left and right arrow keys, and press
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enter. You'll get the choice between a primary and a logical
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partition. If you want a logical partition, the program will
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automatically make an extended partition for you. Then you
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must choose the size of the partition (in MB). If you can't
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enter a value in MB, return to the main screen with the Esc
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key, and select MB with the <EM
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>Units</EM
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command.
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>15.4.4. Set the type of a partition</H3
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> To set the type of a partition, for bootable PReP, Linux
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swap or Linux ext2, highlight the actual partition, and
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select the <EM
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>Type</EM
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> command. You'll get a
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list over different types. Press space, and you'll get even
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more. Find what type you need, and enter the number at the
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prompt.
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>15.4.5. Make a partition bootable</H3
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> To be able to boot from a primary partition, you need to
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make it bootable. Highlight the actual partition and select
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the <EM
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>Bootable</EM
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>15.4.6. Write the result to disk and quit</H3
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> When you are content with the layout of the disk, select the
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<EM
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>Write</EM
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> command. The partition table will
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be written to disk. Remember that <EM
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>this will
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destroy all data on partitions you have deleted</EM
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or changed. You should therefore be very sure that you want
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to do this before actually press the Return key.
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> To exit the program, select the <EM
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