Narain CR wrote:
>
> U mean more than 1 fat extended partition on the disk.
No, I meant more than 1 type 5 extended partition. AFAIK, that is the
general type of extended partition. Now that u have pointed out
something, would a guru pls. explain what the hell are the other types
of extended partitions?
> There are "many"
> types of extended partitions - one is the (in)famous win95-extended
> partition - ID "F", but we also something called a linux extended
> partition (ID 85) and there is also another just extended partition (ID 5)
> which I do not know...
>
> As for interoperability, my machine has one win95-extended partition (with
> fat logical drives) and one linux extended partition( with logical drives
> (ext2) for each of /, /usr, /home etc). I do not know much about the (ID
> 5) extended partition...
>
> Give option "l" in fdisk (linux) to verify the above...
>
> HTH ... Narain.
>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Sachin Garg wrote:
>
> There *cannot* be more than 1 extended partition on the HDD.
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