How do I create a volume withing an extended partiton?

C. Linus Hicks lhicks at nc.rr.com
Fri Feb 11 22:20:32 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 14:10 -0800, Dave Martini 1 wrote:
> Hey thanks so much this worked.
> I was getting confused thinking I could create 4 Primary partitions
> within fdisk and then a 5th. extended one. But it's 3 primary and 1 extended
> for a total of 4 partitions right?

The extended partition actually qualifies as a primary partition, so
it's four primary, one of which can be an extended partition in which
you allocate logical partitions.

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




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