[NTLUG:Discuss] hdax assignments with logical drives

[Dan Carlson]

1, 2, 3, and 4 are the "primary" partitions, of which one can be an
"extended" partition.  The partitions within the extended partition start
at 5.  Basically, I think this is just by convention, i.e. someone decided
to do it this way.  I do not know why.  Other OSes (not just Windows,
FreeBSD, Solaris, UnixWare too) present the same partition table quite
differently, which can be another source of confusion and problems.

Dan Carlson

----- Original Message -----
From: "micky john" <mickyjune26 at hotmail.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 5:42 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] hdax assignments with logical drives


> Hello all,
> Does anyone have a good explination why my first logical drive (created
in
> MsDos fdisk) is assigned hda5, not hda2?  I would understand hda3, where
> hda2 was the extended partition, but not skipping 3 hda numbers.  If not,
no
> worries, because I figured it out anyway.
> ps, whats a good site for newbies trying to learn linux theory?
> -Micky
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