From: "Jacques L'helgoualc'h" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Derek Broughton a écrit, lundi 11 février 2002, à 09:14 : > > From: "Klaas Gadeyne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [...] > > > Is this so?? I thought you could have more logical ones... > > > > > in the first place it's four primaries - one or more of which are containers > > Only *one* `container' is allowed with usual tools as c?fdisk.
Oh - I had never seen such a restriction, but then I hadn't tried to do it either. I'll bow to your expertise . > > However, while there may be a limit to the number of logical partitions > > allowed, my system has 3 primaries, (/hda1 is still Windows, /hda2 is /boot, > > and /hda3 contains 6 logical partitions /hda5-/hda10 with the rest of my > > linux system). > > If you don't need seeing a logical v?fat partition from the dark side > system©, it is safer setting the container type to `Linux extended' (85) > than to `Extended' (05), as especially hda5 can be messed up. Well, thanks for that. I didn't know that either. And in checking I see that I do, indeed, have a type 05 partition. Annoying to hear though, since hda5 is the most important partition on my system after the /boot partition. derek
