Help with partitioning - urgent

[Le grand pinguin]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:17:36AM +1300, Judy & Lindsay Roberts wrote:
> I am trying to create 3 or more partitions on a drive.

Shouldn't be a problem at all.

> the first one if I understand it right should be the primary partition, which I have done.

No, not really. You _can_ create up to 4 primary partitions, the rest have to be so-called
'logical partitions'. Think of "sub-partitions" if you need the newbee simplification.

> Fdisk will not let me set up any further primary drives, only extended partitions which it wont allow me to make active.

This is unfortunately a too vage problem description. Can you post the partitions you have
created so far? (try fdisk -l /dev/hd*** where ***  is replaced by your actual device name).

> 
> Please a step by step.   

As soon as we have the partition listing ...

> 
> I've read enough but it all seems too techy for me,   Could some one spell it out in plain newbie?   I have been to various sites and they are only making me more confused and I'd like to get this small task finished today.
> Linz


Hmm, partitioning a harddisk is probably the closest you'll get to your hardware in a while
(and hence the most tricky). You should really try to understand what's going on (Linux is
about understanding. sigh).

 HTH Ralf Mattes

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