cfdisk how to?

[pham]

HI,

I am trying to partition a Compaq disk array (device name: /dev/ida/c0d1) using cfdisk. I did the followings:

$cfdisk /dev/ida/c0d1
The cfdisk table display, I then select <New>, <logical>, and enter the Size for the partition as 20000(MB). I then select <END> to have the partition create from the end of the disk. The question I have is when the partition is created, the name is &quot;/dev/ida/c0d15&quot;. I am expecting to see something like &quot;/dev/ida/c0d1p5&quot; instead. What is the problem here? Why is cfdisk behave as such?

Note: I have also tried to use fdisk /dev/ida/c0d1. Select &quot;n&quot; to create a new partition, and the prompt &quot;First cylinder (1-1, default 1):&quot;. I don't understand why there is only 1 cylinder available.

Any help I can get is much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[ifincham]

Hi,





I haven't used cfdisk - I believe its just a curses/ncurses version of fdisk - but it looks you created another primary rather than a logical partition within a primary. Presumably you have to select an existing primary first then create a new logical partition within that.





Regards