At 1:36 AM -0800 3/20/06, jdow wrote: >From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >===8<--- >I saw that, but see below >> can describe an unlimited number of parti- >> tions. In sector 0 there is room for the description of 4 partitions >> (called ?Äòprimary?Äô). One of these may be an extended partition; this is >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >'may be an extended partition' - does that mean it should be, or it could be? >IOW, would you do it that way? >===8<--- > >I do not understand your question. Any single one of the basic four >partitions can be an extended partition. This may be partition one, two, >three, or four. Logical partitions are numbered 5 on up. The way these >partitions work there seems to be no reason you cannot have a disk with >four extended partitions other than "it doesn't make sense." One is quite >sufficient. This does not match my recollection that there can be at most one Extended partition per table, and up to 4 Basic partitions (3 if an Extened partition is used, as there can only be 4 partitons per table). If more partitions are needed, use 3 Basic and one Extended; if even more are needed, have one of the Extended partition's 4 partitions be Extended, and so on in a chain. Linux can also use LVM, which is more flexible. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
