disk druid !!!!! why like this ???

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Jatin K wrote:
>On 03/03/2010 01:17 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Jatin K wrote:
>>> On 03/03/2010 12:15 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>>>>> Jatin K<ssh.fedora at gmail.com>   :
>>>>> I've facing one problem ( doing partitioning practice on 10GB IDE
>>>>> hard-disk  )
>>>>
>>>> I dont understand why is it really a problem.
>>>
>>> *what if you are on RHCE exam ...... and question is related to
>>> partitioning  a hdd in said partitions and mount points *
>>
>> *I* don't understand why this subject keeps coming up.
>>
>> You seem to think that the examiners don't understand how an
>> MBR style PT works. Anyone who understands how volume creation
>> on PTs works understands why those are "extended" partitions
>> (or volumes in older terminology).
>>
>> Mike
>
>fdisk works perfectly and maintains the partition order as per the
>desired layout .......  but still size issue is there ... if you select
>+100M ...it will create 95MB partition
>
And that is entirely the filesystems usage is what it is, it reserves about 
5% that it can use that is not available to you, the full 100M exists before 
mk2efs is run to setup the filesystem itself.

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