Joe wrote:
> Stephen Liu wrote:
> >I am running 4 partitions on my OS, namely boot, swap, root and home.
> >'fdisk' only allows 4 partitons. How can I create additional partitions
> >such /var /tmp /usr /etc
> Correction, the bios allows 4 primary partitions. Make an extended
> partition and you can add as many logical partitions to that as you
> want. Well, there is a limit, but I doubt you'll run into it.
It isn't that hard. Linux FDISK versions I've used limit total to 16. If
you let it write the table on a disk with more than 16, you lose all
beyond #16. I have more than that on a 40GB, and if I had larger,
there'd be a whole lot more.
Check out URL below.
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Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html
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