trying to create additional partitions
 

ok say if i want to add 3 partitions on a harddrive i want:

hdb1 for the ext3 /
hdb2 for the /boot
hdb3 for the swap


how would i do this? now i lets say ext3 / type:
mkfs -t ext3 / /dev/hdb1

how do i go about creating partitions for the rest?
i know in the solaris space you can do it all at once but i can't figure
out how to create addtional partitions for the linux.

also when create your partions you can choose primary partition or
extended what is the difference?

thanx to all who help me.

I use fdisk

fdisk /dev/hdb

if you need to remove partitions first use d

to create a partition use n

you can have 4 primary partitions

you could create three primary and one extended partitions, then create logical drives in the extended partition.

If your planning to use the entire drive on 4 or less partitions you can make them all primary

you should look over the howto or man pages for fdisk before you start

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplan...orials/3174/6/

Use parted.
1) On console type parted
2) on parted prompt type print
3) then use the mkfs command.

The documentation on http://www.gnu.org for parted is pretty good....

Hope that helps...