On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 13:55 -0800, Dave Martini 1 wrote: > I have 3 partitions on my boot disk and went into fdisk utility and > made an extended partition for the rest of the free space on the disk. > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407865856 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 127 1020096 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 128 382 2048287+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/sda3 383 1657 10241437+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda4 1658 8924 58372177+ 5 Extended > > Command (m for help): > > > How do I make and mount volumes on my system within this extended > area? Go back into fdisk and use the 'n' command to create additional partitions. They will start at sda5, and you make your filesystems and mount them using /dev/sda5, /dev/sda6, etc. -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
