the reason redhat jumps to sda5 is because it uses an extended partition
for the other file systems. extended partitions start at 5, to make way
for the 4 main partitions in the partition table
This practice is considered good, as you don't use up all 4 main
partitions if you have a lot of linux file systems to create.
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:
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> > I wonder why when i install a redhat box, it doesnt make a partition of sda2,
>sda3, sda4.
> > Whenever I made a partition of sda1, my next partition will be sda5.
> > Why is this so?
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> i have encountered this problem before too. i think it has something to do
> with the cylinder sizes of your hard drive. what i do is that i go down to
> the plain old vanilla fdisk and partition from there. at least, i get full
> control of my partitions at that level.
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