The meaning of primary and extended partitions is the same in DOS
and Linux. The maximum number of partitions on any drive is 4, of
which none or one may be extended and all others must be primary. Any
number of virtual or logical partitions may be installed within the
extended partition.
That user was getting complaints about overlapping partitions. I don't
see the overlap. Any clue?
Bruce
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On Wed, 19 Feb 97 14:49 PST [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote:
That user was getting complaints about overlapping partitions. I don't
see the overlap. Any clue?
Bruce
The complaints probably came from using the 'v'- verify the
partition table in fdisk. The 'v' command
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