On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 03:55:05 +0000 (UTC), JB wrote: > 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 ? You might want to examine the cfdisk source code to find out. cfdisk does not claim it would be a valid partition. It just prints a partition type for the free space, and that already could be a bug. Happens here, too: First Last # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flag -- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ---- 1 Primary 0 390625* 1# 390626*Linux (83) Boot 2 Primary 390626* 781250* 0 390625*Linux (83) None 3 Primary 781251* 39062500* 0 38281250*Linux (83) None Logical 39062501* 39070079 0 7579*Free Space None 4 Primary 39070080 976768064 0 937697985 W95 Ext'd (LBA) (0F) None 5 Logical 39070080 78124094 63 39054015 Linux (83) None 6 Logical 78124095 117194174 63 39070080 Linux (83) None 7 Logical 117194175 156248189 63 39054015 Linux (83) None 8 Logical 156248190 195318269 63 39070080 Linux (83) None 9 Logical 195318270 203125859 63 7807590 Linux swap / So (82) None 10 Logical 203125860 976768064 63 773642205 Linux LVM (8E) None > # 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
