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  From: Benjamin Close <linux@senet.com.au>
  To  : Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au>
  Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 23:23:24 +1030 (CST)

Re: Partitions

On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Brian Astill wrote:

> However, as you and Richard suggested, hdb2 is the extended partition
> within which the Linux partitions hdb5,6,7 reside.  In earlier discussions
> we assumed that the extended partition always defaulted to hdx5 (as an
> identifier, anything under 5 being a Primary partition, anything over 5
> being a Logical partition).  Clearly, this is incorrect.

In Linux (on the i386 architecture) anything 1-4 can be a primary or an
extended partition. Anything 5+ is a logical partition which resides in
the extended partition. 

ie:  hda1  --  primary  (dos/linux native/linux swap, etc)
     hda2  -+  extended 
	    |--> logical (hda5) 

Cheers,
 --

* Benjamin Close
* Benjsc@senet.com.au
* Web Page: http://users.senet.com.au/~benjsc