JB <jb.123abc <at> yahoo.com> writes: Hi, let me follow the previous post with another example. One more "rule to follow" with regard to partitions: http://www.lissot.net/partition/partition-03.html ... Unlike primary partitions, logical partitions must be contiguous. Each logical partition contains a pointer to the next logical partition, ... OK. Now another example of a disk layout (also Paul Cartwright's, but a different computer - Dell XPS desktops): Btw Paul, is that disk also partitioned by Anaconda tool ? Between partitions 2 and 4 there is a free space marked as "logical". Logical 219463964* 219463964 0 1*Free Space None It is clearly outside of the Extended partition range. How comes it is called "logical" if it violates the rule of contiguousness ? # cfdisk -Ps Partition Table for /dev/sda First Last # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flag -- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ---- 1 Primary 0 128519 63 128520 Dell Utility (DE) None 2 Primary 128520 219463963* 0 219335444*HPFS/NTFS (07) Boot Logical 219463964* 219463964 0 1*Free Space None 4 Primary 219463965 615401954 0 395937990 W95 Ext'd (LBA) (0F) None 5 Logical 219463965 223672994 63 4209030 Linux swap / So (82) None 6 Logical 223672995 265618709 63 41945715 Linux (83) Boot 7 Logical 265618710 615401954 63 349783245 Linux (83) None 3 Primary 615401955 625137344 0 9735390 CP/M / CTOS / . (DB) None # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe686f016 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 8 64228+ de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 9 13661 109667722 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 38308 38913 4867695 db CP/M / CTOS / ... /dev/sda4 13662 38307 197968995 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 13662 13923 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 * 13924 16534 20972826 83 Linux /dev/sda7 16535 38307 174891591 83 Linux JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
