Narain CR wrote:
>
> U mean more than 1 fat extended partition on the disk.
win-fdisk does not allow you to create more than one primary dos nor
more than one extended dos.
using linux-fdisk you can create many extended partitions (type 5, f,
85), for whatever reason if you ever want that, subject to 1-4 is
primary, 5-8 is logical partition, in same or different extended
partitions.
in any case there can't be more than 4 physical partitions on a single
hdd.
> 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...
>
if you create logical partition (hda5 - hda8) in linux-fdisk without
first creating extended partition, linux-fdisk automatically creates
extended partition (type 5) and then creates your logical partition in
that extended partition.
win-fdisk shows type 5 extended parition as dos extended partition but
does not show any ext2 parition in that. that may be confusing but not
fatal, as win-fdisk does not allow to create any dos partition (logical
drive) in that partition.
linux extended partition (type 85) is shown as non-dos partition in
win-fidsk. that is safe. in a once-in-a-lifetime burst of sanity, Mr
Bill gates had decided not to fiddle in the non-dos partitions. :)
regards.
-vulcan
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