I just got through partitioning a 9 gig disk myself. I found that fdisk worked better than cfdisk for me. I rebooted after partitioning, as suggested by the fdisk prompts. I had no trouble making and formating a 7 gig partition. (I was unable to format large partitions using cfdisk and not rebooting)
Since you are making 5 partitions, at least one will have to be a logical partition. You can only have 4 physical partitions, numbered 1-4. Logical partitions are numbered 5-8. (you can only have four of those too). I dont know much about logical partitions cuz I dont use them, but I think that they have to be created from extended partitions. cfdisk handles this for you transparently, but I think this is a manual operation in fdisk. If it was me, I would combine the /usr and root partitions and save myself some head scratching. Mike On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 02:38:10PM -0400, Nebu John Mathai wrote: > Hello, > I would like to install Debian 2.0 on a 3 Gig partition which I do not > want to split > further. > 1. Are the problems of possible filesystem corruption realistic? > 2. Are there any performance losses with ext2fs on a 3 gig partition? > 3. For a single user workstation, hooked to the internet via cable > modem (and with > telnet and ftp servers enabled) would a single 3 gig partition be ok, > or would it be wiser > to split it up? > 4. Hardware-wise, are larger partitions worse on the drive than > multiple small ones? Or > is the drive indifferent? > > I have a single 8.4 Gig drive and I planned on having: > 100 MB Linux root > 2.9 Gig Linux /usr > 100 MB Linux swap > 3.0 Gig NT (unfortunately) > 2 Gig FAT32 /home (common for Linux and NT) > > But CFDISK would not let me parition it like this so I had to incorporate > Linux into one > massive 3 Gig partition. > > I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has had horrible experiences with > filesystem > corruption (hope not to hear from anyone, I guess). > > Thanks for any help, and if this has been discussed elsewhere please point > me to a FAQ > and I'll shut up. >
