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On Thursday 26 November 2015 06:27:39 waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:57:20AM +0100, lee wrote |
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> > He said that he "has a primary partition 1, which covers the entire |
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> > hard drive" and "a small / partition". That made me think that he |
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> > has two disks. |
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> Primary partitions are numbered 1 through 4 and logical partitions are |
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> numbered 5 and up. The "primary partition" is the entire physical disk. |
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In which case it's an extended partition; calling it a primary is |
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confusing[1], even though an extended partition is a kind of primary |
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partition. |
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> 5 is the small /, 6 is swap, and 7 is the rest of the disk. |
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1. As witness Lee's reading. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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