On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:09:40PM +1300, Slosh wrote:
> /dev/hda2 1276 2812 12337951+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
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> Truth be told I'm not sure what the Win95 Ext'd (LBA) part is...
Just following on from what Phil said...
An Extended partition is an inherently PC thing. PC hard disks can only have
4 physical partitions, and some larger number of logical partitions (I
forget). these logical partitions must exist inside one or more 'extended'
partitions. So, your hda2 contains hda5 and above. since it's not a real
partition, it doesnt appear as one that can be used by your OS's.
Another point to note, is that windows does like it, at all, when there is
more than one *FAT* or *NTFS* primary partition. (It doesnt care/know if
there are linux ones). So, in your partitioning above, it is good that the
FAT32 'shared' drive is a logical one.
Mike.
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