Partitioning big drive

[Arthur Chtcherba]

I recently acquired a Maxtor 40Gb (well it actually is 37Gb) IDE
hardrive. Anyway thinking that I have enough space to put a few
operating systems, and probably have a few partitions for Linux
like /home, /usr and etc. I have decided that I will need 13
partitions total.

Yet using Linux fdisk I discovered that I can create only 7,
that is only one extended partition. Is it true, or I missed
something. (I used redhat installation disk to run fdisk).

Any comments appreciated,

-- Arthur

[Bit Twister]

I created a dos extended partition and placed different distros within
it.

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[Gordon Reeder]

Arthur Chtcherba wrote:
>
> I recently acquired a Maxtor 40Gb (well it actually is 37Gb) IDE
> hardrive.

You lucky Dog! :O
So what's a few Gb between friends.

Anyway thinking that I have enough space to put a few
> operating systems, and probably have a few partitions for Linux
> like /home, /usr and etc. I have decided that I will need 13
> partitions total.

Yow! how do you figure?

>
> Yet using Linux fdisk I discovered that I can create only 7,
> that is only one extended partition. Is it true, or I missed
> something. (I used redhat installation disk to run fdisk).
>

You have two choices:
1) You can have up to four and only four primary partitions.

2) Or you can have up to three primary partitions and one
extended partition. Within the extended partition you can
create as many logical drives (partitions realy) as you
want. I am aware of no limit.

Now, keep in mind that any bootable partition needs to be
below the 1024 cylinder limit.

> Any comments appreciated,
>
> -- Arthur

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