begin  quoting Dovber Shapiro as of Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:27:35AM -0800:
> Forgive me if my terminology is not clear, but the extended partition
> is the rest of your disk, and contains all of the other partitons, as
> you can see from the start and end blocks.  You need this because you
> can only have 4 primary partitions on a drive, so  the short answer is
> no you cannot mount anything there.

The Primary/Extended partition think is a relic of DOS compatibility,
innit?

[CHOP]

-Stewart "There are ways to do things" Stremler


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