Creating Partition with specific ID

[rczaf01]

I was doing an exam the other day and they wanted me to create a partition /dev/hdd5 so I saw there was a /dev/hdd so when I created the partition it obviously named it /dev/hdd1. How do I get it to be hdd5?

[moksha]

Partitions are named in sequential order so hdd5 would be the second logical partition and to create it you would need to create the 3 primary (hdd1, 2, 3) and the extended partition (hdd4)that would contain (hdd5 and any higher numbered partition.
#Edit#
You could have a look at ~]# tune2fs -L
I think it is a comprehension test rather than one of practical abilities good luck

[jippie]

it is not required to create a total of 5 partitions. The bare minimum would be the steps below, but you may ask yourself if it is of really practical in use.
1. with fdisk create an extended partition,
2. from that point you'll get the option to create a logical partition, your first logical partition will be hdd5

You should do some reading yourself:
Disk partitioning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Extended boot record - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[rczaf01]

Brilliant thanks Jippie, I did do some reading and discovered this.