User`s guide

Advanced Tasks 67

p primary partition (1-4)

Partition number (1-4): 2

First cylinder (256-2231, default 256):

Using default value 256

Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK \

(256-2231, default 2231): +100M

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2231 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdb1 * 1 255 2048256 83 Linux

/dev/sdb2 256 268 104422+ 83 Linux

Command (m for help): w

After the new partition table has been written, you can format it and mount inside the Virtual

Private Server:

[root@vps101 root]# mke2fs /dev/sdb2

[Output of mke2fs is skipped…]

[root@vps101 root]# mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt

[root@vps101 root]# df

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

simfs 1048576 149916 898660 15% /

ext2 101107 13 95873 1% /mnt

Remember that you have to specify all minors for the devices you want to delegate authority

for; allowing to access

/dev/sdb grants the permission to create, modify and delete partitions

on it, but explicit permissions shall be given for partitions you allow the Virtual Private Server

to work with.