How do I create a volume withing an extended partiton?

[C. Linus Hicks]

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.

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C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com>