[H-GEN] confusion re device namings

[Frank Brand]

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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Ben Carlyle wrote:
> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and
> Unix-related topics. ]
> 
> Clinton Roy wrote:
> 
> > I know I'll get into trouble for this, but I've been getting rid of my
> > (badly sized) partitions for /home /usr etc and just been shoving them
> > all in the one partition, currently I've got:
> > 
> > hda1  Boot  Primary  Linux ext2   2944.66
> > hda5        Logical  Linux ext2   1266.70
> > hda6        Logical  Linux swap  98.71
> 

I could have this all bum up but does not a logical partition need an extended
partition to contain it? I am less than a complete expert in Linux fdisk but
(oh bloody hell gonna get some stick here) but in DOS you can not make a
logical partition alone. You make an extended partition then a logical
partition in the extended partition. You need (if I am correct):-

 hda1  primary
hda2 extended then some logical partitions. 

Why do this? In DOS it is difficult to have more than one primary partition and
then have to add extended partitions but in Linux you can have 4 primaries.
Other than your swap partition you only want 2 partitions...why not make them
both primaries hda1 and hda2?

Now beat the crap out of me if I am wrong here.

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Frank Brand
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