<quote who="Scott Ragen">
> Hi guys,
> I'm a little confused by this, and although it has never caused any
> problems, I am somewhat concerned about it.
> I was looking at my partitions through fdisk and comparing them to the
> mounted filesystems, and found an oddity (atleast it looks like one to
> me....)
> An fdisk produces two partitions as below:
>
> /dev/hda4 420 1216 6401902+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5 420 1216 6401871 83 Linux
>
> If you notice the start and end cylinders, they are both the same.
> I have tried mounting hda4 to see what it is, but it comes up with the
> wrong fs type etc.
>
> Can anyone put some reasoning into what looks to be a computer
> contradicting itself?
hda4 is the extended partition and hda5 is the first, and in this case
the only, logical partition within it.
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