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