On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:31:38 -0500 (EST), John Hasler wrote: > Cecil Knutson writes: >> Debian Linux three (counting the Swap partition), any other partition >> has to be an extended... > > The standard pc partition scheme allows either four primary partitions > or three primaries and one extended. This limitation is imposed by the > scheme, not by Windows or Linux. An extended partition can contain any > number of logical partitions but Linux can only address a total of 63 > partitions.
I think what Cecil meant was that fdisk under Windows only allows one primary partition to be created, although I am not in a position to verify that; and because of the drive letter assignment scheme, a maximum of 24 logical drives in an extended partition can be addressed by Windows (C-Z), with A and B being reserved for floppy drives. Linux fdisk (or cfdisk, or sfdisk, or GNU parted) can create up to four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/228100894.16046571267495559704.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
