Re: [expert] mounting FAT partition

[John Aldrich]

On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> That worked. Thanks! I should've thought of looking in /proc. 
> The partition was actually hda5. hda3 is a 1mb partition (as is hdb3,
> making my swap partition hdb5). Using VFAT also seems to have done the
> trick.
> I'm assuming these 1mb partitions are used to store filesystem info for
> accessing data at larger addresses?... This is just a wild guess.
> Also, do extended partitions always start at the third one or is it more a
> matter of the physical location of the partition on the drive?
> 
I believe typical extended partitions start with 5. At
least they do on my systems here at work and at home.
        John