[CentOS] Partition

Wed Mar 25 20:44:56 UTC 2015
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Stephen Drotar wrote:
>
> I would like to create 6 partitions on one disk before installing.  How
do I add partitions separate from the /home /boot /root and /swap files?

If you're using a drive 2TB or smaller, and an MBR, rather than a GPT, you
can *only* have four primary partitions. To make more, one of those must
be an extended partition, and you can create additional partitions in
that.

One question: why do you need so many?

     mark