Linux Partition HOWTO
Linux Partition HOWTOAnthony LissotRevision HistoryRevision 3.5 26 Dec 2005reorganized document page ordering. added page on setting up swap space. added page of partition labels.updated max swap size values in section 4. added instructions on making ext2/3 file systems. broken linksidentified by Richard Calmbach are fixed. created an XML version.Revision 3.4.4 08 March 2004synchronized SGML version with HTML version. Updated lilo placement and swap size discussion.Revision 3.3 04 April 2003synchronized SGML and HTML versionsRevision 3.3 10 July 2001Corrected Section 6, calculation of cylinder numbersRevision 3.2 1 September 2000Dan Scott provides sgml conversion 2 Oct. 2000. Rewrote Introduction. Rewrote discussion on device namesin Logical Devices. Reorganized Partition Types. Edited Partition Requirements. Added Recovering a deletedpartition table.Revision 3.1 12 June 2000Corrected swap size limitation in Partition Requirements, updated various links in Introduction, addedsubmitted example in How to Partition with fdisk, added file system discussion in Partition Requirements.Revision 3.0 1 May 2000First revision by Anthony Lissot based on Linux Partition HOWTO by Kristian Koehntopp.Revision 2.4 3 November 1997Last revision by Kristian Koehntopp.This Linux Mini−HOWTO teaches you how to plan and create partitions on IDE and SCSI hard drives. Itdiscusses partitioning terminology and considers size and location issues. Use of the fdisk ...