[Techtalk] logical & extended partitions (fdisk)

[Mary]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005, Noir wrote:
> How can I make more than 4 partitions and mount them
> at the same time as ext3 fs? Can anyone shed some
> light on this issue?

You need to make "logical partitions" inside a primary partition. See
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-3.html#logical and
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-5.html , particularly the
section entitled "Mixed primary and logical partitions"

-Mary