Table 7-1 shows some of your choices.
TABLE 7-1
Disk Device Names
Device Description
/dev/sda For the first IDE or SCSI hard disk; sdb, sdc, and so on for other disks
/dev/rd/c0d0 For a RAID device
/dev/ida/c0d0 Also for a RAID device
CAUTION
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Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution Part III
After you have started fdisk, type m to see the options. Here is what you can do with fdisk:
Delete a partition??”Type d and a partition number, and then press Enter. For example,
/dev/sda2 would be partition number 2. (The deletion won??™t take effect until you write
the change??”you can back out up to that point.)
Create a partition??”If you have free space, you can add a new partition. Type n; l for a
logical partition (5 or over) or p for a primary partition (1??“4); and a partition number from
the available range. Then choose the first cylinder number from those available. (The
output from fdisk ??“l shown earlier will show you cylinders being used under the Start
and End columns.)
Next, enter the cylinder number the partition will end with (or type the specific number
of megabytes or kilobytes you want: for example, +50M or +1024K). You just created an
ext3 Linux partition. Again, this change isn??™t permanent until you write the changes.
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