Again, thanks to all. HDD partitioned and working....ooops forgot the fstab
entry, oh well something to do tomorrow.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Peter Rundle
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2002 3:52 PM
> To: Simon Bryan; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] e or p in FDISK
>
>
>  > Simple question: should this be an extended or primary partition?
>
> Extended partitions were invented to overcome the fact that PC
> boot sectors (where the partition table is held) are limited
> to only 4 partitions. If you aren't going to put more than
> 4 partitions on the disk then you don't need to use an extended
> partition.
>
> rgds
>
> Pete
>
>
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