On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:44 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > 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. FWIW, the CentOS 7 installer is soley responsible for making partitions, including whether they're primary or extended. The user has no direct control over this, although you can create them in advance outside the installer, and then assign mount points to existing partitions. -- Chris Murphy