On Thursday 26 November 2015 06:27:39 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:57:20AM +0100, lee wrote > > > He said that he "has a primary partition 1, which covers the entire > > hard drive" and "a small / partition". That made me think that he > > has two disks. > > Primary partitions are numbered 1 through 4 and logical partitions are > numbered 5 and up. The "primary partition" is the entire physical disk.
In which case it's an extended partition; calling it a primary is confusing[1], even though an extended partition is a kind of primary partition. > 5 is the small /, 6 is swap, and 7 is the rest of the disk. 1. As witness Lee's reading. -- Rgds Peter
