[wplug] Disk partitions

[T Quine]

Could you give us the output of '/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda'?  This'll give us 
an
idea of what you are talking about.  As far as I know, there isn't such 
thing as hda0.  hda5 and hda6 are the first and second partitions of an 
extended partition.  I would hazard a guess, and say that you have an 
extended partition at hda1, which contains two partitions, hda5 and hda6.

For example, during boot, my linux machine says:
  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >

and fdisk -l /dev/hda says:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1662 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       522   4192933+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2           523       548    208845   83  Linux
/dev/hda3           549      1662   8948205    5  Extended
/dev/hda5           549       810   2104483+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           811      1065   2048256   83  Linux
/dev/hda7          1066      1114    393561   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8          1115      1134    160618+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9          1135      1662   4241128+  83  Linux



-QUINE-



>From: "Weber, Larry A" <laweber at switch.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: [wplug] Disk partitions
>Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:50:40 -0400
>
>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
>
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