On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > Shaya: > > Something is wrong here. If Extended means what it does in the dos world > > i.e. as opposed to primary, something is very wrong. hda1-4 should be > > primary and hda5-... would be extended. This means that when it says > > Extended, Extended is a type, such as linux native, dos fat, HPFS, NTFS. > > I suspect that this means there's a nameless extended partition that begins > at 1024, and that hda4 starts at offset 1261 into _that_. >
I don't hink so b/c extended partitions are by default after hda4. You can have 4 primaries and many extended. The extended are part of a logical partition. That is why during a boot we get hda1, hda2 < hda5 >, or something like that. WE have primary hda1, logical hda2, which has hda5 as a prt of it. All extended partitions are after 4. Shaya > > Boot Begin Start End Blocks System > > /dev/hda1 * 1 1 163 82120+ Linux native > > /dev/hda2 164 164 244 40824 Linux swap > > > > /dev/hda3 245 245 1260 512064 Linux native > > /dev/hda4 1024 1261 2484 616896 Extended > > /dev/hda5 1024 1261 1870 307408+ Linux native > > /dev/hda6 1024 1871 2484 309424+ Linux native > -- > Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 > Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. > PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
