Re: [LIH] Dos extended Partition

[Dwivedi Ajay kumar]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Narain CR wrote:

> anyway, whats to stop U from making a primary partition (anything, say ID
        
        fdisk does. See the transcript.
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Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/fd0: 2 heads, 18 sectors, 80 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 36 * 512 bytes

    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/fd0p1             1        20       351   83  Linux
/dev/fd0p2            21        40       360    5  Extended
/dev/fd0p3            41        80       720   83  Linux

Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-5): 3
Hex code (type L to list codes): 5
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You cannot change a partition into an extended one or vice versa
Delete it first.
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                                                Ajay kumar Dwivedi
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