[wellylug] Fsck'd Partitions... help?

[Cliff Pratt]

David Antliff wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Cliff Pratt wrote:
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>> mmmm. The partition numbers make me think that the missing partition 
>> should be hdb3 and hdb4. The extended partition probably should 
>> include both hdb5 and hdb6 so should be 9 + 86 = 95Mb shouldn't it?
> 
> 
> DOS partition table tools (like fdisk) only allow one extended partition 
> record in the main partition table, and it must be the last one defined 
> (I think), so it's typical to have a primary partition, an extended + 
> logical partitions, then two primary partitions at the end. So if 
> partition 2 is his extended partition, then 3 and 4 would be tricky to 
> create. I'm not sure what happens if you actually DEFINE these however...
>
I *think* that I created a partition for a BSD 'slice' after an extended 
partition, but I'm not sure...

My point was that partition 2 should encompass partitions 4 and 5, which 
as I remembered the numbers it didn't. However when I checked I realised 
that I was confusing commas with decimal points!

Once I'd got that straight I could see that Jo's missing partitions were 
going to be /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8 exactly like my disk as it happens!

I should read things more carefully.

Cheers,

Cliff

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