Re: FDisk Help
Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> wrote:
> Sven: On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:29:46 +0100, you wrote:
>> /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda8 are logical partitions inside an extended
>> partition. The extended partition is /dev/sda2.
> How did you know that? sda6 isn't even a mounted filesystem--sda1, 5,
> 7 and 8 are the mounted filesystems for /, /tmp, /var, and /home
> respectively. How did /dev/sda6 get in there? It shows as swap.
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.)
Grüße,
Sven.
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