On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Michael Stenner wrote: >Don't know too much about this, but it seems odd to jump from hdb1 to >hdb5 with no 2,3,4 in between. However, if it is working so far, it's
hdb5 is the first extended partition number. hdb1 is the primary partition, hdb2 is an extended partition (no space for data), and hdb5 is the first [logical] partition inside of hdb2. now you know :) -ed