Steve Matzura <s...@noisynotes.com> wrote: > Sven: On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:29:46 +0100, you wrote:
>> /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda8 are logical partitions inside an extended >> partition. The extended partition is /dev/sda2. > How did you know that? sda6 isn't even a mounted filesystem--sda1, 5, > 7 and 8 are the mounted filesystems for /, /tmp, /var, and /home > respectively. How did /dev/sda6 get in there? It shows as swap. You said in your first mail that /dev/sda6 was swap. And since Linux always numbers the logical partitions beginning from 5 and /dev/sda1 was /, /dev/sda2 can only be the extended partition, containing sda5-8. Simple deduction (and experience with the matter of course). (Side-note: this is also why I really like GPT instead of MSDOS as a partition table. No primary, extended and logical partition nonsense, kist 128 possible partitions without any special conventions.) Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
