partitioning problem
I originally had 4 primary partitions on my laptop they were windows vista(primary),ubuntu 8.10(primary),swap partition,dell recovery(primary)
,F(logical) I shrinked my F drive to install ubuntu 9.04 and I was successful but now my disk manager shows 5 primary partitions i.e. ubuntu 9.04 also as a primary partition ..I cannot understand how I can have 5 primary partitions when I installed ubuntu 9.04 as a logical partition . |
From your description, you only had 3 primary partitions. If you installed Ubuntu as primary, that would be your 4th and final allowable primary.
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but isn't swap also a primary partition.
plz help |
What's the output of cfdisk?
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#sudo parted
>p post output |
thanks for the description it says
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 197MB 197MB primary fat16 2 198MB 16.3GB 16.1GB primary ntfs 3 16.3GB 80.3GB 64.0GB primary ntfs boot 4 80.3GB 320GB 240GB extended lba 7 80.3GB 98.2GB 18.0GB logical ext3 8 98.2GB 101GB 2994MB logical linux-swap 5 101GB 206GB 105GB logical ntfs 6 206GB 295GB 88.5GB logical ntfs 9 295GB 320GB 25.5GB logical ext3 but why does the windows vista disk manager shows the other way? Plz help |
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Inside an extended partition you can have as many logical drives as you need. In linux, this means that the four first numbers are always reserved for primary/extended partitions, and the first logical drive is always 5, even if you only have a single primary partition. For example, if your disk is /dev/hda and you have only an extended partition into it, then it will be /dev/hda1, and if you make drives inside that extended partition, then they will be named from /dev/hda5, /dev/hda6.... /dev/hdaN. That's true even if there's no /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3 or /dev/hda4. |
As you can see, you've got 4 primary partitions. The last one forms an extended partition which consists of a number of logical partitions.
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Thanks for the reply.
still can't understand the problem with vista disk manager thanks again. |
What fdisk or cfdisk or vista shows is a MSDOS partition table.
In it you can either have four primary partitions or three primary partitions with one extended partition and it's logical partitions. |
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