"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