CentOS - Jun 2009 - External USB Drive partitioning, formatting and configuring Bacula server

Thanks for your help Sean, did all the steps you mentioned. One thing
I don't understand, when partitions are created, why does Linux number
it awkwardly? For example, I created 1 Primary partition of 10% disk,
then created 1 Extended partition of 90% disk. Inside that extended
partition, I created 3 logical partitions 33% each. It went numbering
sdb1, sdb5, sdb6 and sdb7. Where's the hell 2,3 and 4? Anyways, I've
got my partitions now and formatted them so, it's all good.

Thanks for your help with this. Next, as I went through Bacula's
pages, I found that they mostly use tape drives for
backup....ugh.......how can I use my usb partitions with Bacula? Any
ideas?

Thanks again!
Cheers :)

On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 14:36 +1000, Sagar Koirala wrote:
> Thanks for your help Sean, did all the steps you mentioned. One thing
> I don't understand, when partitions are created, why does Linux number
> it awkwardly? For example, I created 1 Primary partition of 10% disk,
> then created 1 Extended partition of 90% disk. Inside that extended
> partition, I created 3 logical partitions 33% each. It went numbering
> sdb1, sdb5, sdb6 and sdb7. Where's the hell 2,3 and 4? Anyways,
I've
> got my partitions now and formatted them so, it's all good.
> 
-- 
It is because you created an "Extended Partition".

john

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Sagar Koirala<sagar.koirala at gmail.com>
wrote:
> partition, I created 3 logical partitions 33% each. It went numbering
> sdb1, sdb5, sdb6 and sdb7. Where's the hell 2,3 and 4? Anyways,
I've
partitions 1 through 4 are dedicated to primary/extended partitions,
logicals start from 5.

this is not linux numbering, this is the way the partition table works.
> backup....ugh.......how can I use my usb partitions with Bacula? Any
> ideas?
<http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html#SECTION003245000000000000000>
seems like what you're after.

BR Bent