Setting Up Internal Disk Storage
Setting Up the ftServer System
5-5
To create a new partition table and add a partition
1. If
fdisk
is not already running, enter the
fdisk
command.
#
fdisk /dev/sdb
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 17849.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than
1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of
LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help):
2. Enter the
o
command to create a new empty DOS partition table.
Note the caution
displayed by the command.
Command (m for help):
o
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory
only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course,
the previous content won't be recoverable.
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 17849.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than
1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of
LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be
corrected by w(rite)
Command (m for help):
3. Enter the
n
command to add a new partition.
Command (m for help):
n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
4. Enter
e
or
p
to specify the desired type.
p
Partition number (1-4):
