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external drive partition question + fdisk question
Ok, I've finally bought myself a new drive which I'll use for backup and simply as extra memory.
It is 1T and has a big fat32 partition. I would like to make smaller partitions, maybe four (if I understand right this is the maximum for fdisk). I've used fdisk before to install OpenBSD and I know that the partition must start at sector 63. Is it the same for a non bootable drive? Is it fine to start from head 0 sector 1? Like here: Code:
$ fdisk sd0 Disk: sd0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0: 83 0 0 1 - 32635 106 47 [ 0: 524288000 ] Linux files* 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused Once I manage to partition in fdisk, does disklabel give the opportunity to make extra partitions (or how are they called?)? I've tried to divide sectors by 4 and have now this mbr: Code:
Disk: sd0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0: 83 0 0 1 - 30400 83 63 [ 0: 488381292 ] Linux files* 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused Sorry I'm adding new things all the time. I've just seen this in a post http://www.daemonforums.org/showthre...ighlight=fdisk : Quote:
Last edited by gosha; 13th June 2009 at 10:26 AM. |
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