[Techtalk] Extended Partitions - I found it! - QUITE! :)

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:35:40PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Hamster thought:
> 
> I know for a fact that linux doesn't mind which one you use. This can be
> borne out by the fact that the harddrives in both my perfectly functioning
> computers have an 0x0F extended partition type, and so does another person
> who posted their partition table to the list - they also have a perfectly
> functioning system that uses the 0x0F. So the topic as far as I'm concerned
> is still "not quite".

I remember sowe time ago, there was a problem with dual-boot systems
where, if you didn't make a small (didn't have to be small) FAT??
partition at the end of your drive, your linux partitions would get eaten.
I wonder was this anything to do with the 0x0F/0x05 dichotomy?

> Well of course its DOS based. Its name alone is enough to tell you that. But
> there's nothing wrong with using it to hold logical drives formatted as ext2
> or ext3 or some other linux filesystem. 

hopefully...
 
> Why on earth won't an experiment "work too good"? It seems that in the
> absence of hard facts its the best way of finding out how it all works!

This is presumably the modern definition of a "successful" experiment: "An
experiment is successful if it produces the answer desired by the
experimenter."

The _real_ definition is more like: "An experiment is successful if it
produces an answer to the question that prompted it.  If that answer is
not the answer desired by the questioner, the experiment is still a
success since it answered the question.  An "unsuccessful" experiment is
one which produces no useful answer."

Conor

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