* Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org> [20030326 09:58 PST]: > 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 Thanks for the correction! So each extended partition contains a linked list of partitions, rather than a separate partition table. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.debian.org/ Set your computer Free.
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