On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 00:31, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi all folks, > > I just finished installing a RH9.0 box. Partitions made are as follows > > /boot > swap > / > /home > > But > # fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/hde: 10.2 GB, 10245537792 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1245 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hde1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hde2 14 78 522112+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hde3 79 736 5285385 83 Linux > /dev/hde4 737 1245 4088542+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hde5 737 1245 4088511 83 Linux > > Kindly help me to under what is > "/dev/hde4 737 1245 4088542+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)" > > I did not create a partition for Win95. > > Is > "/dev/hde5 737 1245 4088511 83 Linux" > home partition (/home)? > > Thanks in advance. Dos style partition tables can only have 4 entries called "primary" partitions. One of those 4 (usually the last, #4) can be an "extended" partition, which can hold up to 11 more "logical" partitions, for a grand total of 14 usable partitions per disk (1-3,5-15) where data can be stored. In your case you only asked for 4 partitions so the extended partition was unneeded, but it won't hurt you to leave it there. -- Chris Kloiber Red Hat, Inc. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
