A disk can only have 4 primary partitions. ( I think this is a DOS legacy) If you want more you need to create an extended partition. The first part of the ext. partition contains an extended partition table that allows you add more partitions. Your /dev/hda4 is not mountable , it is an ext. partition, as it only has this ext. partition table, with only 1 child partition defined. (Yes probably having a ext. partition in this case is probably redundant but it isn't hurting anything)
Basically, don't worry everything is normal. Martin Visser Network Consultant - Global Services COMPAQ, part of the new HP 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone *: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile *: +61-411-254-513 Fax 7: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail * : martin.visserAThp.com -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ragen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2002 5:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Filesystems.... Hi guys, I'm a little confused by this, and although it has never caused any problems, I am somewhat concerned about it. I was looking at my partitions through fdisk and comparing them to the mounted filesystems, and found an oddity (atleast it looks like one to me....) An fdisk produces two partitions as below: /dev/hda4 420 1216 6401902+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 420 1216 6401871 83 Linux If you notice the start and end cylinders, they are both the same. I have tried mounting hda4 to see what it is, but it comes up with the wrong fs type etc. Can anyone put some reasoning into what looks to be a computer contradicting itself? Cheers, Scott -- Scott Ragen Roadtech Systems Ltd. Support Manager Ph: +61 2 9807 3516 Fax: +61 2 9808 5294 www.roadtechsystems.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
