On 25/01/2011 18:13, Alok Aggarwal wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Dermot McCluskey wrote: > >> Drew, >> >> I'm a bit concerned that such a big change is coming in at the >> end of our discussion. >> >> As I understand it, the way this is meant to work is that the partition >> name is used to identify whether a partition is logical or primary, >> ie 1-4 = primary; 5-36 = logical. And there can only be one extended >> partition per disk, so it is always possible to determine which extended >> partition the logical partitions belong to. > > So, what does that mean for (extended) partition validation? > > Does it effectively mean that the following rules need to be > in place (in addition to those previously stated in an earlier > email): > > - A partition marked with an id of 15 (extended) must have a > partition number 1-4 > - At most one partition with an id of 15 MAY exist on a given > disk > - When partition number 5-36 are specified, there MUST exist > a partition numbered 1-4 with a partition id of 15 (extended) >
I think that about covers it. Thanks, Darren. _______________________________________________ caiman-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
