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dasy2k1 01-07-2007 09:01 AM
multiple extended partitions?
 
is it possable to have multiple extended partitions? eg.

sda1 Primary
sda2 Primary
sda3 extended
sda5 logical
sda6 logical
sda7 logical
sda4 extended
sda8 logical
sda9 logical

avallach 01-07-2007 09:58 AM
AFAIK you can only have one extended partition on your disk

snowtigger 01-07-2007 10:14 AM
You can only have 1 extended partition on a disk.

Because of the way it was all designed, way back when 20Mb hard drives were considered huge. You can only have 4 partitions on a drive, but one of these can be an extended partition which can hold logical partitions.

So it would go like this
Code:
sda1  primary
sda2  primary
sda2  primary
sda4  extended
      \sda5 logical
      \sda6 logical
      \you can then carry on, there is a maximum but i can't remember how many.
:)

dasy2k1 01-07-2007 10:31 AM
ah well
the idea was to have seperate sets of logical partitions to keep seperarte distrabutions in mabie i cna achive the same thing with LVM


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