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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Partitions. Post 302503475 by Corona688 on Thursday 10th of March 2011 04:30:11 PM
Old 03-10-2011
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Originally Posted by rama krishna
You have the above mentioned partitions but as per my knowledge we can just have seven slices in a disk.
Maybe that's true for SPARC based systems, I don't know. Mine is a PC system with an old-fashioned MS-DOS boot sector. That only supports 4 partitions, but any of those can be an "extended" partition that holds other partitions. Like so:
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If that's the case how can we accommodate all the above mount points.[/QUOTE]$ fdisk -l /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 317632 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x73ee210d

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1         131       65992+  83  Linux
/dev/sdc2             132        1172      524664   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc3            1173        3254     1049328   83  Linux
/dev/sdc4            3255      317632   158446512    5  Extended
/dev/sdc5            3255       44865    20971912+  83  Linux
/dev/sdc6           44866       65671    10486192+  83  Linux
/dev/sdc7           65672       77504     5963800+  83  Linux
/dev/sdc8           77505      317632   121024480+  83  Linux

$

Partitions 1 through 3 are regular partitions. Partition 4, the very last partition I'd be able to fit in the table, is an "extended" partition which holds other partitions: sdc5, sdc6, sdc7, and sdc8 actually reside inside it.

This is architecture-specific and OS-specific, don't try fdisk on a solaris system -- it's either absent or something completely different.

What isn't OS and PC specific is what you can do with the partitions once they've been made: Attach them wherever you want in your file tree.
Last edited by Corona688; 03-10-2011 at 05:36 PM..
 

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