[NBLUG/talk] extended fs

Mark Street mark at oswizards.com
Tue Dec 14 15:37:57 PST 2004


Hi Marilyn,

Welcome to the NBLUG talk list.

How large is your HDD and what are the sizes of the 3 primary partitions you 
have defined?

If you have 3 partitions defined and they are less than the total size of the 
drive, then yes, you can create an extended partition.  You may then create 
logical partitions inside of the extended partition.  The 'extended' 
partition is merely a container for 'logical' partitions contained within.  
You may create up to 12 'logical' partitions inside of your 'extended' 
partition.

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 14:57, Caven Marilyn-MGIA4523 wrote:
> If I have a working Fedore Core 1 system can I create a new (extended)
> partition without hosing the OS?  Would I use the mke2fs?  This system only
> has a /root /boot and /swap filesystems on hda1 hda2 and hda3.

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