On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:12 PM, pahnin sd <[email protected]> wrote:
> how to create extra partition to install linux when there are already
> four primary partitions
>
You need to create an extended partition and have logical partitions in that.
>From man page of fdisk:
A DOS-type partition table can describe an unlimited number of
partitions. In sector 0 there is room for the description of 4
partitions (called `primary'). One of
these may be an extended partition; this is a box holding
logical partitions, with descriptors found in a linked list of
sectors, each preceding the corresponding logi‐
cal partitions. The four primary partitions, present or not,
get numbers 1-4. Logical partitions start numbering from 5.
--
Regards,
Nilesh Govindarajan
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr
Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr
Website: http://www.itech7.com
VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps
--
l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
