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>5. Partitioning with fdisk</H1
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> This section shows you how to actually partition your hard drive with
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> utility. Linux allows only 4 primary
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partitions. You can have a much larger number of logical partitions by
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sub-dividing one of the primary partitions. Only one of the primary
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> Four primary partitions (see <A
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> Mixed primary and logical partitions (see <A
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> <TT
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print the partition table
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create a new partition
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delete a partition
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quit without saving changes
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> <TT
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>w</B
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write the new partition table and exit
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> Changes you make to the partition table do not take effect until you issue the write (w) command.
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Here is a sample partition table:
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CLASS="programlisting"
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> Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders
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Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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/dev/hdb1 * 1 184 370912+ 83 Linux
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/dev/hdb2 185 368 370944 83 Linux
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/dev/hdb3 369 552 370944 83 Linux
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/dev/hdb4 553 621 139104 82 Linux swap
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</PRE
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The first line shows the geometry of your hard drive. It may not be
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physically accurate, but you can accept it as though it were. The hard
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drive in this example is made of 32 double-sided platters with one
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head on each side (probably not true). Each platter has 621 concentric
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tracks. A 3-dimensional track (the same track on all disks) is called
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a cylinder. Each track is divided into 63 sectors. Each sector
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contains 512 bytes of data. Therefore the block size in the partition
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table is 64 heads * 63 sectors * 512 bytes er...divided by 1024. (See
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<A
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> for discussion on
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problems with this calculation.) The start and end values are cylinders.
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>5.2. Four primary partitions</H2
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> <EM
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>The overview:</EM
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> Decide on the size of your swap space (see <A
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>Section 4.4</A
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>) and where it ought to go (see <A
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>Section 4.4.3</A
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Divide up the remaining space for the three other partitions.
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> Example:
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> I start fdisk from the shell prompt:
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> # <TT
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>fdisk</B
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>/dev/hdb</TT
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which indicates that I am using the second drive on my IDE controller.
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(See <A
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HREF="devices.html#names"
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>Section 2.1</A
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>.) When I print the (empty) partition table,
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I just get configuration information.
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> Command (m for help): <TT
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>p</B
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Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders
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Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
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</PRE
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I knew that I had a 1.2Gb drive, but now I really know: 64 * 63 * 512
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* 621 = 1281982464 bytes. I decide to reserve 128Mb of that space for
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swap, leaving 1153982464. If I use one of my primary partitions for
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swap, that means I have three left for ext2 partitions. Divided
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equally, that makes for 384Mb per partition. Now I get to work.
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> Command (m for help): <TT
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CLASS="userinput"
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>n</B
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Command action
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e extended
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p primary partition (1-4)
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<TT
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CLASS="userinput"
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><B
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>p</B
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></TT
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Partition number (1-4): <TT
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>1</B
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></TT
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First cylinder (1-621, default 1):<TT
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><RETURN></B
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Using default value 1
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Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-621, default 621): <TT
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><B
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>+384M</B
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>
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Next, I set up the partition I want to use for swap:
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><PRE
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> Command (m for help): <TT
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>n</B
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Command action
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e extended
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p primary partition (1-4)
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p
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First cylinder (197-621, default 197):<TT
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Using default value 197
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Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (197-621, default 621): <TT
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><B
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>+128M</B
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Now the partition table looks like this:
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> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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/dev/hdb1 1 196 395104 83 Linux
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/dev/hdb2 197 262 133056 83 Linux
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I set up the remaining two partitions the same way I did the first.
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Finally, I make the first partition bootable:
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> Command (m for help): <TT
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>a</B
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Partition number (1-4): <TT
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>1</B
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And I make the second partition of type swap:
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> Command (m for help): <TT
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><B
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>t</B
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Partition number (1-4): <TT
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CLASS="userinput"
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><B
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>2</B
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></TT
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Hex code (type L to list codes): <TT
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>82</B
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Changed system type of partition 2 to 82 (Linux swap)
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Command (m for help): <TT
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The end result:
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="programlisting"
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> Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders
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Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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/dev/hdb1 * 1 196 395104+ 83 Linux
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/dev/hdb2 197 262 133056 82 Linux swap
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/dev/hdb3 263 458 395136 83 Linux
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/dev/hdb4 459 621 328608 83 Linux
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></FONT
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Finally, I issue the write command (w) to write the table on the disk.
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</P
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> Side topics:
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>Section 10.2</A
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><A
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>Section 10.1</A
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><A
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HREF="appendix.html#mounting"
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>5.3. Mixed primary and logical partitions</H2
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><P
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> <EM
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>The overview:</EM
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> create one use one of the primary
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partitions to house all the extra partitions. Then create logical
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partitions within it. Create the other primary partitions before or
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after creating the logical partitions.
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</P
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><P
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> Example:
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</P
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><P
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> I start fdisk from the shell prompt:
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> # fdisk /dev/sda
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which indicates that I am using the first drive on my SCSI chain.
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(See <A
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>Section 2.1</A
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</P
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><P
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> First I figure out how many partitions I want. I know my drive has a
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183Gb capacity and I want 26Gb partitions (because I happen to have
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back-up tapes that are about that size).
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> <TT
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>183Gb / 26Gb = ~7</TT
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><P
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> so I will need 7 partitions. Even though fdisk accepts partition sizes
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expressed in Mb and Kb, I decide to calculate the number of cylinders
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that will end up in each partition because fdisk reports start and
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stop points in cylinders. I see when I enter fdisk that I have 22800
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cylinders.
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><PRE
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CLASS="programlisting"
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> > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 22800. There is
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> nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in
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> certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot
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> time (e.g., LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other
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> OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
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</PRE
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></TABLE
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>
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So, 22800 total cylinders divided by seven partitions is 3258
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cylinders. Each partition will be about 3258 cylinders long. I ignore
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the warning msg because this is not my boot drive (<A
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HREF="requirements.html"
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>Section 4</A
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>).
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</P
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><P
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> Since I have 4 primary partitions, 3 of them can be 3258
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long. The extended partition will have to be (4 * 3258), or 13032,
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cylinders long in order to contain the 4 logical partitions.
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</P
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><P
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> I enter the following commands to set up the first of the 3 primary
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partitions (stuff I type is bold ):
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<TABLE
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BORDER="0"
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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
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WIDTH="100%"
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><TR
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><TD
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><FONT
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="programlisting"
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> Command (m for help): <TT
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CLASS="userinput"
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><B
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>n</B
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></TT
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>
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Command action
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e extended
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p primary partition (1-4)
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<TT
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CLASS="userinput"
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><B
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>p</B
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></TT
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>
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Partition number (1-4): <TT
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CLASS="userinput"
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><B
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>1</B
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></TT
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>
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First cylinder (1-22800, default 1): <TT
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CLASS="userinput"
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><B
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><RETURN></B
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></TT
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>
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Using default value 1
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Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-22800, default 22800): <TT
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CLASS="userinput"
|
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><B
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>3258</B
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></TT
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>
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</PRE
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></FONT
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></TD
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></TR
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></TABLE
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>
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The last partition is the extended partition:
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<TABLE
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BORDER="0"
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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
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WIDTH="100%"
|
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><TR
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><TD
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><FONT
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|
COLOR="#000000"
|
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><PRE
|
|
CLASS="programlisting"
|
|
> Partition number (1-4): <TT
|
|
CLASS="userinput"
|
|
><B
|
|
>4</B
|
|
></TT
|
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>
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First cylinder (9775-22800, default 9775): <TT
|
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CLASS="userinput"
|
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><B
|
|
><RETURN></B
|
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></TT
|
|
>
|
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Using default value 9775
|
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Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (9775-22800, default 22800): <TT
|
|
CLASS="userinput"
|
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><B
|
|
><RETURN></B
|
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></TT
|
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>
|
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Using default value 22800
|
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</PRE
|
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></FONT
|
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></TD
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></TR
|
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></TABLE
|
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>
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The result, when I issue the print table command is:
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<TABLE
|
|
BORDER="0"
|
|
BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
|
|
WIDTH="100%"
|
|
><TR
|
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><TD
|
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><FONT
|
|
COLOR="#000000"
|
|
><PRE
|
|
CLASS="programlisting"
|
|
> /dev/sda1 1 3258 26169853+ 83 Linux
|
|
/dev/sda2 3259 6516 26169885 83 Linux
|
|
/dev/sda3 6517 9774 26169885 83 Linux
|
|
/dev/sda4 9775 22800 104631345 5 Extended
|
|
</PRE
|
|
></FONT
|
|
></TD
|
|
></TR
|
|
></TABLE
|
|
>
|
|
|
|
Next I segment the extended partition into 4 logical partitions,
|
|
starting with the first logical partition, into 3258-cylinder
|
|
segments. The logical partitions automatically start from /dev/sda5.
|
|
|
|
<TABLE
|
|
BORDER="0"
|
|
BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
|
|
WIDTH="100%"
|
|
><TR
|
|
><TD
|
|
><FONT
|
|
COLOR="#000000"
|
|
><PRE
|
|
CLASS="programlisting"
|
|
> Command (m for help): <TT
|
|
CLASS="userinput"
|
|
><B
|
|
>n</B
|
|
></TT
|
|
>
|
|
First cylinder (9775-22800, default 9775): <TT
|
|
CLASS="userinput"
|
|
><B
|
|
><RETURN></B
|
|
></TT
|
|
>
|
|
Using default value 9775
|
|
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (9775-22800, default 22800): 13032
|
|
</PRE
|
|
></FONT
|
|
></TD
|
|
></TR
|
|
></TABLE
|
|
>
|
|
|
|
The end result is:
|
|
|
|
<TABLE
|
|
BORDER="0"
|
|
BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
|
|
WIDTH="100%"
|
|
><TR
|
|
><TD
|
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><FONT
|
|
COLOR="#000000"
|
|
><PRE
|
|
CLASS="programlisting"
|
|
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
|
|
/dev/sda1 1 3258 26169853+ 83 Linux
|
|
/dev/sda2 3259 6516 26169885 83 Linux
|
|
/dev/sda3 6517 9774 26169885 83 Linux
|
|
/dev/sda4 9775 22800 104631345 5 Extended
|
|
/dev/sda5 9775 13032 26169853+ 83 Linux
|
|
/dev/sda6 13033 16290 26169853+ 83 Linux
|
|
/dev/sda7 16291 19584 26459023+ 83 Linux
|
|
/dev/sda8 19585 22800 25832488+ 83 Linux
|
|
</PRE
|
|
></FONT
|
|
></TD
|
|
></TR
|
|
></TABLE
|
|
>
|
|
|
|
Finally, I issue the write command (w) to write the table on the disk.
|
|
To make the partitions usable, I will have to format (<A
|
|
HREF="appendix.html#formating"
|
|
>Section 10.1</A
|
|
>)
|
|
each partition and then mount (<A
|
|
HREF="appendix.html#mounting"
|
|
>Section 10.3</A
|
|
>) it.
|
|
</P
|
|
></DIV
|
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><DIV
|
|
CLASS="sect2"
|
|
><H2
|
|
CLASS="sect2"
|
|
><A
|
|
NAME="submitted"
|
|
></A
|
|
>5.4. Submitted Examples</H2
|
|
><P
|
|
> I'd like to submit my partition layout, because it works well with
|
|
any distribution of Linux (even big RPM based ones).
|
|
|
|
I have one hard drive that ... is 10 gigs, exactly. Windows
|
|
can't see above 9.3 gigs of it, but Linux can see it all, and use it
|
|
all. It also has much more than 1024 cylenders.
|
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|
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<DIV
|
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CLASS="table"
|
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><A
|
|
NAME="AEN711"
|
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></A
|
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><P
|
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><B
|
|
>Table 7. Partition layout example</B
|
|
></P
|
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><TABLE
|
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BORDER="1"
|
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CLASS="CALSTABLE"
|
|
><THEAD
|
|
><TR
|
|
><TH
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>Partition</TH
|
|
><TH
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>Mount point</TH
|
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><TH
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
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>Size</TH
|
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></TR
|
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></THEAD
|
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><TBODY
|
|
><TR
|
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><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>/dev/hda1</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>/boot</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>(15 megs)</TD
|
|
></TR
|
|
><TR
|
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><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>/dev/hda2</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>windows 98 partition</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>(2 gigs)</TD
|
|
></TR
|
|
><TR
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>/dev/hda3</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>extended</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>(N/A)</TD
|
|
></TR
|
|
><TR
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>/dev/hda5</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>swap space</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>(64 megs)</TD
|
|
></TR
|
|
><TR
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>/dev/hda6</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>/tmp</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>(50 megs)</TD
|
|
></TR
|
|
><TR
|
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><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>/dev/hda7</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>/</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>(150 megs)</TD
|
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></TR
|
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><TR
|
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><TD
|
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WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>/dev/hda8</TD
|
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><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
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>/usr</TD
|
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><TD
|
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WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>(1.5 gigs)</TD
|
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></TR
|
|
><TR
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>/dev/hda9</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>/home</TD
|
|
><TD
|
|
WIDTH="33%"
|
|
ALIGN="LEFT"
|
|
VALIGN="MIDDLE"
|
|
>(rest of drive)</TD
|
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></TR
|
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></TBODY
|
|
></TABLE
|
|
></DIV
|
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>
|
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|
|
I test new kernels for the USB mass storage, so that explains the large
|
|
/boot partition. I install LILO into the MBR, and by default I boot
|
|
windows (I'm not the only one to use this computer).
|
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</P
|
|
><P
|
|
> I also noticed that you don't have any REAL examples of partition
|
|
tables, and for newbies I HIGHLY suggest putting quite a few up. I'm
|
|
freshly out of the newbie stage, and partitioning was what messed me up
|
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the most.
|
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</P
|
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><P
|
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> <A
|
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HREF="mailto:valkor@qx.net"
|
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TARGET="_top"
|
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>Valkor</A
|
|
>
|
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