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.
5 is the small /, 6 is swap, and 7 is the rest of the disk.

-- 
Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Reply via email to