dennisjperk...@comcast.net wrote: > Partitions and filesystems are not identical on Linux/Unix systems. > You carve a drive up into partitions, and you are free to format each > partition with whatever filesystem you want. Every other operating > system I am aware of does not make this distinction.
Not true. Windows has FAT and NTFS. > sda2 is not really a partition. It contains the extended partitions. > In your case, sda5 and sda6. Actually an extended partition is a partition, but it has sub-partitions. All this stuff is avoided with a GUID Partition Table (GPT) which is a lot more sane in the world of large disk drives. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
