[Techtalk] Extended Partitions

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Thursday 20 November 2003 08:17, Hamster wrote:
> On 19 Nov 2003 15:47:35 -0500
> I'm not referring to primary partitions or logical drives, I am referring
> to the extended partition, which is a type of primary partition that allows
> the creation of logical drives within.

I understand the question, but I have no idea what the difference is.

However, from running fdisk on my machine:

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 41.1 GB, 41174138880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5005 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1       255   2048256    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2   *       256       892   5116702+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3           893      1147   2048287+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4          1148      5005  30989385    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5          1148      1402   2048256   83  Linux
/dev/hda6          1403      1529   1020096   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda7          1530      1656   1020096   83  Linux
/dev/hda8          1657      5005  26900811   83  Linux

So it looks like I've got the Win95 Ext'd type.

Unfortunately, I don't even know which tool I used to set up the partitions.

Personally, I prefer cfdisk to anything else, and I was really ... not happy 
... when RedHat stopped putting it in their distros.

My recommendation:

Get cfdisk.  Use it instead of fdisk.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

-- 
Rasjid Wilcox
Canberra, Australia (UTC +10 hrs)
http://www.openminddev.net