Re: repartitioning: joining two partitions

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

Vineet Kumar <debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net> writes:

>              If you want 5 or more (usable partitions), you'll have to 
> create at least one "extended" partition.  Each extended partition can
> hold up to 4 more partitions.  

     An extended partition is not limited to 4 logical partitions.
>From /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Partition.gz:

     The primary partition used to house the logical partitions is
     called an extended partition and it has its own file system type
     (0x05). Unlike primary partitions, logical partitions must be
     contiguous. Each logical partition contains a pointer to the next
     logical partition, which implies that the number of logical
     partitions is unlimited. However, linux imposes limits on the
     total number of any type of partition on a drive, so this
     effectively limits the number of logical partitions. This is at
     most 15 partitions total on an SCSI disk and 63 total on an IDE
     disk.

Regards,

Bob
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