MANAGING
PARTITIONS
What
is partition?
Partitioning is a means to divide a single hard
drive into many logical drives. A partition is a contiguous set of block on a
drive that are treated as an independent disk. A partition table is an index
that relates sections of the hard drive to partitions.
This tutorial shows you
how to actually partition your hard drive with the fdisk utility. Linux allows
only 4 primary partitions. You can have a much larger number of logical
partitions by sub-dividing one of the primary partitions. Only one of the
primary partitions can be sub-divided.
