synchronized XML version with HTML version. Updated
lilo placement and swap size discussion.
Revision 3.3
04 April 2003
synchronized SGML and HTML versions
Revision 3.3
10 July 2001
Corrected Section 6, calculation of cylinder numbers
Revision 3.2
1 September 2000
Dan Scott provides sgml conversion 2 Oct. 2000.
Rewrote Introduction.
Rewrote discussion on device names in Logical Devices.
Reorganized Partition Types.
Edited Partition Requirements.
Added Recovering a deleted partition table.
Revision 3.1
12 June 2000
Corrected swap size limitation in Partition Requirements,
updated various links in Introduction, added submitted example in
How to Partition with fdisk, added file system discussion in Partition Requirements.
Revision 3.0
1 May 2000
First revision by Tony Harris based on Linux Partition HOWTO by Kristian Koehntopp.
Revision 2.4
3 November 1997
Last revision by Kristian Koehntopp.
This Linux Mini-HOWTO teaches you how to plan and create partitions
on IDE and SCSI hard drives. It discusses partitioning terminology and
considers size and location issues. Use of the fdisk partitioning utility
for creating and recovering of partition tables is covered. The most recent
version of this document is here.
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