Way back in the dark ages. Maybe even before Linux for some reason forgotten (At least by me) Mac's required this for some sort of information transfer. The first three partitions were 'empty' and take up no room. The caveat to this is (at least for older Linux systems) that Linux tries to mount the specified partition and if it does not exist fails. If this happens you can do a fdisk -l to determine if it has been reformatted I.E. using partition 1 not 4. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
