[CLUE-Tech] Partitioning/Formatting newbie question.

[Chris Greene]

I usually try to figure things out by myself by
experimenting and searching the web, but I have not
found much on this so I figure I will ask the masters.
 I installed RH 7.3 last night, deleted ALL partitions
and left 5 gigs of free space available.  What I want
to do is learn how to make a new partition out of this
space and how to format it.  I think I'll be OK once I
get the partition created, but I'm not sure how to do
it.  I tried 'cfdisk /dev/hda' at first, but it only
list the following:

Name         Flags  Part Type  FS Type              
Size (MB)
/dev/hda1    Boot    Primary    Linux                
258.86
/dev/hda2            Primary    Linux               
8001.13
/dev/hda3            Primary    Linux               
4000.57
/dev/hda4            Primary    Win95 Extended (LBA)
6832.34

I don't know if this will help or not, but here is a
print out of the labels:

         ---Starting---      ----Ending----   Start
Number of
 # Flags Head Sect Cyl   ID  Head Sect Cyl   Sector 
Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------
---------
 1  0x80    1    1    0 0x83  254   63   32      63   
530082
 2  0x00    0    1   33 0x83  254   63 1023  530145 
16386300
 3  0x00  254   63 1023 0x83  254   63 1023 16916445  
8193150
 4  0x00  254   63 1023 0x0F  254   63 1023 25109595 
13992615

At this point I don't know how to view free space.  It
says to press 'New' to make a new partition out of
free space, but 'New' is not an option.  When I press
'n' for New partition, it says that the partition is
already in use.  

I also ran 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' and received the
following:

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id 
System
/dev/hda1   *         1        33    265041   83 
Linux
/dev/hda2            34      1053   8193150   83 
Linux
/dev/hda3          1054      1563   4096575   83 
Linux
/dev/hda4          1564      2434   6996307+   f 
Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5          1564      1628    522081   83 
Linux
/dev/hda6          1629      1693    522081   83 
Linux
/dev/hda7          1694      1742    393561   83 
Linux
/dev/hda8          1743      1754     96358+  82 
Linux swap

I tried to do some experimenting, but just destroy my
tables which causes me to reinstall which takes about
2hrs on my poor little p166 with 4 speed cdrom.  So
I'm asking here so I don't have to go through that
again.  I'm just doing this to learn how to partition
free space and format it; I know I could easily do
this with disk druid during the install.  I deleted
ALL paritions during the install, and then set up the
linux paritions.  Why does it say 'Win95 Ext'd (LBA)'?
 Does it look like the free space is at Start=1755 to
End=2434?  Any ideas or resources that you can point
me to on the internet would be appreciated.