Re: how to work out with more than 1024 cylinders

[Rizwan Mohammad <rizwan clovertechnologies com>]

Create the first three partitions as primary for ( at least / ) the rest can be
made into the extended. Linux fdisk allows 3 primary parttions, 4th onwards
should be given to extended( logical ).  I don' t know the limit.

Rizwan.


>     Device   Boot    Start    End        Blocks        Id    System
> /tmp/hda1                   1    1024    8225248+    83    Linux native
> /tmp/hda2     *      1025    1027         24097+     e    Win95 Fat16
> (LBA)
> 
> It tells me I can create only 4 partitions, but I actually need more
> partitions than that.   How do I work out having 0 Free bytes and
> partition from there?