On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Babu Kalakrishnan wrote:
>>> Sorry - you misread me. When I said add/remove
>>> logical drives - I didn't
>>> mean merge "primary" partitions. The primary
>>> partitions have fixed numbers
>>> and there's no problem if one of them is missing.
No kala, I came up with the "merging primary partitions" as an analogy to
the extended partition problem...
>>> So linux wouldn't be able to make out later which partition
>>> is hda5 & which is hda6
>>> and get thoroughly screwed up.
Once again I beg to differ here, I think the numbering would follow a rule
wherin the extended partition with a lower "primary partition number"
owuld get precedence here - I mean between hda3 and hda4, the logical
drives in hda3 would come first as hda5 etc and then the logical drives in
hda4 would take their numbers irrespective of the order in which we
create/modify them... anyways I intend to test this out in a few days and
I'll report with my findings then...
>>> I suspect Linux might ignore the second extended
>>> partition altogether if found on a hard disk.
I dont think thats the case, anyways I'll let U know tomorrow when I have
a look at my machine's numbering system...
>>> Did I confuse you totally ?
On the contrary, I think I'm a little more "enlightened" on the working of
this thing after we have "talked" on it...
Thanks a lot... (for the "enlightenment")
Cheers,
Narain.
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