[Gllug] Win&Lin accessible filesystems

[Paul Brazier]

> Don't go doing anything to the Extended partition!!
> 
> The short story:  It actually contains other drives!!  They 
> will disappear
> too if you remove the extended partition!!

Thanks, I was wrongly thinking I had two windows partitions on that
machine, 
I forgot one of them was the extended partition that holds all the linux
ones.
 
> ok, the long story is that the partition table is only 
> capable of holding 4
> entries.  So, since around the transisition of MSDOS 3 or so, 
> which made us
> reformat our drives anyway, MS introduced a scheme to allow as many
> partitions as possible.

Is this a real open standard?
Surely other OSs must have had the need for multiple partitions before
MS thought of it?
Is there an analogous extended partition that's purely linux/open
source?
So instead of having Linux in a DOS/Win extended partition you have
Windows in a Linux extended partition?


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