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On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 06:27:39 -0500, waltdnes@××××××××.org 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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> 5 is the small /, 6 is swap, and 7 is the rest of the disk. |
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Why are you using logical partitions at all when three primary partitions |
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will do the job? |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Did you know that eskimos have 17 different words for linguist? |
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