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Chapter 2. Hardware Installation and Operating System Configuration 33
beginning of the given range. The following example shows how to create two partitions
of 20 MB each on an empty disk.
(parted) mkpart primary ext3 0 20
(parted) mkpart primary ext3 20 40
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-4340.294 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.030 21.342 primary
2 21.343 38.417 primary
• When more than four partitions are required on a single disk, it is necessary to create an
extended partition. If an extended partition is required, the mkpart also performs this
task. In this case, it is not necessary to specify a file system type.
Note
Only one extended partition may be created, and the extended partition must be one
of the four primary partitions.
(parted) mkpart extended 40 2000
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-4340.294 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.030 21.342 primary
2 21.343 38.417 primary
3 38.417 2001.952 extended
• An extended partition allows the creation of logical partitionsinside of it. The following
example shows the division of the extended partition into two logical partitions.
(parted) mkpart logical ext3 40 1000
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-4340.294 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.030 21.342 primary
2 21.343 38.417 primary
3 38.417 2001.952 extended
5 38.447 998.841 logical
(parted) mkpart logical ext3 1000 2000
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-4340.294 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.030 21.342 primary
2 21.343 38.417 primary
3 38.417 2001.952 extended
5 38.447 998.841 logical