[lug] 2 questions

Dale Harris rodmur at maybe.org
Mon Nov 29 09:44:36 MST 1999


On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 09:42:41AM -0700, Dale Harris elucidated:
> 
> You can make partitions higher than that, but you have to make an 
> extended partition first.  I'm not very familiar with disk druid, I 
> typically just use fdisk.  DOS, I believe, could have a problem finding
> a partition as high as hdb7, you might want to make the DOS partition one
> of the first four.  
> 

Course hopefully, a lot of this mess will go away with the logical volume
manager that is being built into 2.3 and eventually 2.4.

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