[Gllug] Win&Lin accessible filesystems

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:19:29AM +0000, Pete Ryland wrote:
> Anyway, by convention, fdisk authors (of all varieties) have seemed to
> notate this chaining by calling (in our notation) /dev/hdx1 the "primary"
> partition, and all others (/dev/hdx5 up) "logical" partitions of the
> "extended" partition (/dev/hda2), despite in reality this is actually a
> *chain* of extended partitions.

??  As long as I've been using Linux fdisk hdx1-4 have been primary
partitions.  More user-friendly tools like Disk Druid tend jump from
/dev/hdx1 to /dev/hdx5 (without telling you that they have created
/dev/hdx2 to contain /dev/hdx5 and up) but I don't use those for that
and other reasons.

This machine has 4 primary partitions, /dev/hda4 being an extended
partition containing several logical partitions.  What Linux fdisk
doesn't let you do, IME, is create any new primary partitions after
you've created logical partitions. It is possible, IIRC, to have
/dev/hdx2 an extended partition, /dev/hdx3 and 4 primary partitions and
then /dev/hdx5 and up logical partitions - so long as you create all the
primary partitions first.

-- 
Bruce

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