Unexpected "W95 Ext'd (LBA)" partition
Hi,
I'm a decent computer guy who is also a Linux newbie.
I installed FC4 on a pc with 3 NTFS partitions.
I formated the first partition to ext3 (I don't really know what that is) and installed linux on it. I kept the others the way they are in case I chickened out and wanted to bring windows back.
Fortunately, linux is doing quite well and I want to format the other two partitions.
Here's my questions: When I do a "fdisk -l /dev/hda," I see 4 partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1276 7295 48355650 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1276 2550 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 2551 7295 38114181 7 HPFS/NTFS
The 1st and last 2 are as I expect, but what's the second one?
Also, is there a way to change the number of hda5 and hda6 so they become hda2 and hda3? This isn't all that important, but it bugs the neat freak in me.
Thanks,
Hawk
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