So the first "Logical Partition" is going to be called /dev/sda5 (or /dev/hda5) by Linux and (hd0,4) by GRUB, and the naming will continue sequentially from there.

Write changes to the disk and exit fdisk. Format the partition with a file system, for example, mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX1. Mount the partition to a directory to start using it. Implementing Logical Volume ...

You must have heard about these terms – Partition, Volume, and Logical Drive. And, if you wonder what these terms actually mean, then this post will help you throw some light on them.

Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...

Logical volumes are an alternate method of partitioning hard drive space. The capability has been built into the Linux kernel since 1999, contributed by Sistina Software.

With an LVM, the physical drives or hard disks are organized into “volume groups.” Created inside those volume groups are “logical volumes,” which are comparable to disk partitions in ...

Mayday! I need to get this drive wiped and XP reinstalled TONIGHT, 'cept fdisk won't delete the extended partition because it says I have logical drives, but when I try to delete logical drives it ...

The downside (vs. multiple mount points or the union fs type) is that the whole batch becomes one disk - has to be formatted as one disk, and if one of the physical drives goes, the whole ...