On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:57:58 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:44:10 -0500 (EST), David Goodenough wrote: >>> I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. >>> QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is >>> what one would expect, but when I boot the disk the kernel reports >>> that there are only the /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 partitons, no /dev/hda5. >> >> What happened to /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4? How can there be a /dev/hda5 >> without all the partitions in between? > > Using "MS-DOS" partitioning: > > 1-4 are the Primary partitions. Their extents are recorded on sector 0 of > the > drive. > > 5-15 are the Logical partitions. Their extents are recorded in a partition > table store inside primary partition (which is not otherwise used).
I think I knew that at one time, but it's been so long since I used an "extended partition" and "logical drives" that I had forgotten it. Thanks for the partitioning lesson. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/348458400.16766651267724228725.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com