Reuben D Budiardja wrote:
> Uh, I just actually tried to mount to /dev/hdb5, and it worked. I can
> access my files there. I'm not really sure what happen. But I remember when
> I partitioned my HD with PQ magic, it says that win95 cannot handle more
> than 1 primary partition, that's why it then created an extended/logical
> partition (/dev/hdb2) and another partition under that extended partition
> so that win95 can access it.... somehow. When I did fdisk then, it looks
> like as if both /dev/hdb2 and /dev/hdb5 starts from the same point, but I
> think it was the PQ magic doing.
The extended partition and the first logical under it will start at the same
boundry. That is how the extendeds work. the logical are contained entirely
within the extended. I have only a cursory understanding of how this works and
none of the why but the usual scenario is :
the first 4 partitions on /dev/hda will be primaries:
/dev/hda1
/dev/hda2
/dev/hda3
/dev/hda4
the logicals (placed in an extended) will start at /dev/hda5 and continue on
from there
I tend to think of the extended partitions as containers that hold logical
partitions.
HTH
Bret
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