Re: confused: primary and extened partition
lilifan2 wrote:
> Almost all books and docs say that primary partitions can
> "contain" extended partitions.
And they can. My system has 4 primary and 4 extended partitions, with
the extended partitions contained in hd3.
> 1. I don't think primary partitions
> can physically contain extended parttitions, b/c we can
> set up only one primary partition as 20mb and
> only one extended partition 30 mb
> which is larger than the primary one. So let us do not say
> primary partitions "contain" extended ones, let us say
> extended parttions are "associated" w/ primary ones.
The extended partitions _are_ contained in a primary partition, a larger
one that you don't usually see.
> 2. Still, my question is: how do know which extended partitions
> are associated to which primary ones? e.g.
>
> hd1 20mb primary
> hd2 34mb primary
> hd5 234mb extended
> hd6 100mb extended
>
> Is hd5 associated to hd1 or hd2? Or we are not supposed to know
this?
> The system will keep track of it?
hd5 looks like it is associated to hd3, which would contain hd5 && hd6.
Type "dmesg|grep hda" on the command line and see the partitions listed.
The extended partitions are the ones contained between the '<' && '>',
and are contained in the preceeding primary partition.
Seneca
seneca-cunningham@rogers.com
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