"John Danielson, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Any system that has EVER had a file system with Windows or DOS on it has the
> following part structure.
> 
> Part #s 1-4 can be primary.
> Part #5 is always an extended part table to hold logical drives.
> Parts 6 and up can be logicals.

it really seems like we can't agree on terminology or ???

% fdisk -l /dev/sda

[...]

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             1         2     16033+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2   *         3       263   2096482+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3           264       276    104422+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4           277      1106   6666975    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           277       340    514048+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6           341       353    104391   82  Linux swap
...
/dev/sda11         1013      1106    755023+  83  Linux

parts #5-#11 are included in #4

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