partitioning question

[Ken Moffat]

Ken Moffat wrote:

> I recently added an 80gig western digital oem to one machine as a 
> slave, and used BootIt-NG to partition it into 10 gig reiserfs 
> partitions, with hdb4 as extended and several logical partitions, 
> hdb5-9. However, there are .03meg spaces between each partition 
> labeled /dev/hdb-1. Some are labeled hidden, some not.
>
> I'm wondering what the cause of this can be. I did not preformat the 
> drive or otherwise mess with it before using BootIt-NG, so it was just 
> a raw drive. I wonder if there was some step I should have taken 
> before creating my partitions?
>
> I have used bootitng before with success, and this drive is 
> functional, but the formatting is curious.
>
> Thanks for any info...
>
> (rookie drive installer.)
>


I think the cause of this is the tool tries to maintain dos partition 
compatibility. I see a "Maximize" option in cfdisk, but will not do this 
at present, since I'm uncertain, and don't want to mess up anything. As 
stated, it works as is...

-- 
Ken