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Partitioning

Partitioning and labeling a disk under Linux is done with the FDISK command. There is also a screen-oriented version called
CFDISK, which has essentially the same commands. 

[root@abby /root]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 9 heads, 80 sectors, 1151 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 720 * 512 bytes

   Device Flag   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            0        0     1000   360000   83  Linux native
/dev/sda2  u      1000     1000     1151    54360   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda3            0        0     1151   414360    0  Empty
[root@abby /root]# fdisk
Using /dev/sda as default device!

Command (m for help): m
Command action
   a   toggle a read only flag
   b   edit bsd disklabel
   c   toggle the mountable flag
   d   delete a partition
   l   list known partition types
   m   print this menu
   n   add a new partition
   o   create a new empty DOS partition table
   p   print the partition table
   q   quit without saving changes
   s   create a new empty Sun disklabel
   t   change a partition's system id
   u   change display/entry units
   v   verify the partition table
   w   write table to disk and exit
   x   extra functionality (experts only)
   
   Command (m for help): l

 0  Empty            3  SunOS swap       6  SunOS stand     82  Linux swap     
 1  Boot             4  SunOS usr        7  SunOS var       83  Linux native   
 2  SunOS root       5  Whole disk       8  SunOS home     

Command (m for help): q
[root@abby /root]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 9 heads, 80 sectors, 1151 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 720 * 512 bytes

   Device Flag   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            0        0     1000   360000   83  Linux native
/dev/sda2  u      1000     1000     1151    54360   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda3            0        0     1151   414360    0  Empty
[root@abby /root]# 



#------------------------ partition with windoz ---------------------#
	Dual boot partition with windoz on the first partition

[root@praxan local]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1292 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       401   3031528+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2           402      1079   5125680   83  Linux
/dev/hda3          1080      1161    619920   83  Linux
/dev/hda4          1162      1292    990360   82  Linux swap


I used an application called fips to shrink the windoz partition then
installed linux on the rest of the disk. In the above partition table
there are two linux native partition and one swap partition. The smaller 
linux native is for additional data such as home directories or logs.

Note:
	If possible put the linux native partion beginning under cylinder
	1023. It works ! but I believe it may be  happier.