Re: [SLUG] mounting a fat32 partition

From: Mark Polhamus (meplists@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 16:14:19 EST


Norbert Cartagena wrote:
>...
> Maybe I'm way off the mark here, but hda2 an extended partition? I
> thought that extended partitions were 5 and above, and that 1-4 were
> primary. Can someone explain this?
>
> Gnorb

I think you are confusing "extended partition" with "logical partition".

The Linux Partition HOWTO at
http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/partition/partition-3.html#logical says:
"The primary partition used to house the logical partitions is called an
extended partition". There is further explanation and an example.

-- Mark Polhamus



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