[wplug] Disk partitions

[mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:50:40PM -0400, Weber, Larry A wrote:
> Can anyone explain why when I partition my hard drive into two parts.  hda0
> and hda1 the system reports them as hda0 hda1 and then in brackets <hda5
> hda6>?
> 
> This occurs with several distributions.
> 
> -laweber
> 
Those are Logical partitions, which are different from Primary partitions
in that they are not stored in the Partition table because that
table only has 4 possible entries.  This is why the numbering starts
from 5 for them.

They are quite normal, so unless you controlled your disk partitioning
precisely (with fdisk, say) I would not be surprised if whatever installation
you used has created them for you.

-- 
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; Matthew Danish                         email: mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu ;;
;; OpenPGP public key available from:        'finger mrd at db.debian.org' ;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;