I didn't think about that. It's been years since I've done this in Windows.
Technically true and you said it better. But you wouldn't format it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dubbs" <bruce.du...@gmail.com> To: "LFS Support List" <lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org> Sent: Monday, November 5, 2012 1:49:20 PM Subject: Re: [lfs-support] What Is "The" LFS Partition? 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
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