On Friday, 26 May 2023 11:47:04 CEST, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
(And as mick.crane already noticed, it is a bit awkward to create an
extended partiton 2 only to fill it nearly up with logical partition 5.
I wonder what entity decided to do so.)
on my debian 11 test vm with default installation it is exactly the same:
root@debian11test:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 20 GiB, 21474836480 bytes, 41943040 sectors
Disk model: VBOX HARDDISK
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x2e739d33
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 39942143 39940096 19G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 39944190 41940991 1996802 975M 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 39944192 41940991 1996800 975M 82 Linux swap / Solaris
greetings...
