MORE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE STUFF

Well after a bit of nutting out of partitioning and have to use fdisk I finally am mkfs2 /dev/sd whatever numbering.
That tldp info was great. It was in a dialect of geekese I actually did manage to grasp. Perhaps I'm finally learning the language!

EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE STUFF

Gee it's taken a while to get what I wanted for setting up an external hard disc, but I have finally found a page that has everything on it that I need. I would like to set - up space for 5days of back-up so that the folders that we write to often on the server are backed up each day as well as space for weekly and monthly backups:

External Hard Drive Partition sizes

2 weekly 25gb partitions - 3040 cylinders each - 6080 total
5 daily 15gb partitions - 1835 cylinders each - 9175 total
1 monthly archive 35gb partition - 4202 cylinders

4 primary partitions:

/dev/sda1 - 1st partition - 3040 - week 1 partition
/dev/sda2 - 2nd partition - 3040 - week 2 partition
/dev/sda3 - 3rd partition - 4202 - monthly archive partition
/dev/sda4 - 4th partition - 9175 - daily partitions - extended partition

Extended partitions sizes in the

/dev/sda5 - 1st daily partition 10282 + 1835 = 12117
/dev/sda6 - 2nd daily partition 112117 + 1835 = 13952
/dev/sda7 - 3rd daily partition 113952 + 1835 = 15787
/dev/sda8 - 4th daily partition 115787 + 1835 = 17622
/dev/sda9 - 5th daily partition 117622 + 1835 = 19457