Partitions under linux system

[shwety1085]

Hi,
I used fdisk -l command to check out the partitions under my linux system and it gave me the following output:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0f5bc770

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048      206847      102400   de  Dell Utility
/dev/sda2   *      206848    30926847    15360000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3        30926848   415423151   192248152    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       415424512   625139711   104857600    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5       415426560   422817791     3695616    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6       422819840   625139711   101159936   83  Linux

but i am not able to understand what does all this information is all about. I just know that these are the device files and used as an interface for the device drivers.
Can someone please help me explain this output.

I am also trying to create a file in one separate partition in linux. How should i do that? Is it possible to create the file in one of the partitions mentioned above?

[nujinini]

shwety1085!

I hope some guru can explain this in detail too since I don't understand it much myself. Meanwhile, I suggest you try to look into your

$ man fdisk

. for the meantime. I have to do a bit more reading on it myself.

Good luck!

[devils casper]

That command is list all available partitions. /dev/sda2 and sda3 are Primary Partitions having NTFS filesystem. /dev/sda1 is Dell Recovery partition. /dev/sda4 is an Extended Partition. /dev/sda5 and sda6 are Logical Partitions inside Extended Partition having NTFS and ext* filesystem.

I am also trying to create a file in one separate partition in linux. How should i do that? Is it possible to create the file in one of the partitions mentioned above?

Could you explain a bit more? Do you want create another Partition by resizing Linux partition or something else?