Re: FDisk Help

[Steve Matzura <number6@noisynotes.com>]

Sven:

On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:12:51 +0100, you wrote:

>You said in your first mail that /dev/sda6 was swap. And since Linux
>always numbers the logical partitions beginning from 5 and /dev/sda1 was
>/, /dev/sda2 can only be the extended partition, containing sda5-8.
>Simple deduction (and experience with the matter of course).
>
>(Side-note: this is also why I really like GPT instead of MSDOS as a
>partition table. No primary, extended and logical partition nonsense,
>kist 128 possible partitions without any special conventions.)

Thanks. More of that esoteric knowledge again, comes with experience I
know.