lilifan2 wrote: > Almost all books and docs say that primary partitions can > "contain" extended partitions.
And they can. My system has 4 primary and 4 extended partitions, with the extended partitions contained in hd3. > 1. I don't think primary partitions > can physically contain extended parttitions, b/c we can > set up only one primary partition as 20mb and > only one extended partition 30 mb > which is larger than the primary one. So let us do not say > primary partitions "contain" extended ones, let us say > extended parttions are "associated" w/ primary ones. The extended partitions _are_ contained in a primary partition, a larger one that you don't usually see. > 2. Still, my question is: how do know which extended partitions > are associated to which primary ones? e.g. > > hd1 20mb primary > hd2 34mb primary > hd5 234mb extended > hd6 100mb extended > > Is hd5 associated to hd1 or hd2? Or we are not supposed to know this? > The system will keep track of it? hd5 looks like it is associated to hd3, which would contain hd5 && hd6. Type "dmesg|grep hda" on the command line and see the partitions listed. The extended partitions are the ones contained between the '<' && '>', and are contained in the preceeding primary partition. Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]