On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Jatin K wrote: >On 03/03/2010 01:17 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Jatin K wrote: >>> On 03/03/2010 12:15 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >>>>> Jatin K<ssh.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> : >>>>> I've facing one problem ( doing partitioning practice on 10GB IDE >>>>> hard-disk ) >>>> >>>> I dont understand why is it really a problem. >>> >>> *what if you are on RHCE exam ...... and question is related to >>> partitioning a hdd in said partitions and mount points * >> >> *I* don't understand why this subject keeps coming up. >> >> You seem to think that the examiners don't understand how an >> MBR style PT works. Anyone who understands how volume creation >> on PTs works understands why those are "extended" partitions >> (or volumes in older terminology). >> >> Mike > >fdisk works perfectly and maintains the partition order as per the >desired layout ....... but still size issue is there ... if you select >+100M ...it will create 95MB partition > And that is entirely the filesystems usage is what it is, it reserves about 5% that it can use that is not available to you, the full 100M exists before mk2efs is run to setup the filesystem itself. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It's faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money. -- Tom T. Hall, "The Secret of Life" -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
