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--- Felix Miata  wrote:
> Franklin wrote:
>  
> > Hmmm. A tiny error, a disk is limited to 4
> partitions,
> 
> A disk has no physical partition limit. Whatever
> limit exists is
> entirely in software, the ability of any OS to
> logically subdivide the
> whole into logical subdivisions. 4 is simply all
> that can be defined by
> the 4 PC-compatible table entries that can fit in
> the MBR.

Good case in point win98 fdisk can only create two
physical partitions, one primary and one extended with
logicals, which drove me nuts trying to work around
that with os2.
> 
> > not primary partitions. Extended is not considered
> > primary as much as I have read. But I shouldn't
> > nitpick. Mayby it is. One may have up to 3 primary
> and
> > one extended on one hard drive, or 4 primaries if
> one
> > wants, as you stated.
> 
> An extended partition is just a fancy name for a
> special primary
> partition that points to another sector that defines
> what we call a
> logical partition, and that may itself point to yet
> another such sector. 

OK, I'll buy that. I finally got past my fear of LVM
and figured out that I could create compatible
extended volumes after which I booted win98 and
formatted them. I never had been able to do that with
os2 fdisk and no way could I create an extended
partition with windows with logical partitions and
have OS/2 recognize them.

Franklin


> -- 
> "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you
> free."
>                                                 John
> 8:32 NIV

Yeah!
 
>  Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
> 
> Felix Miata  *** 
> http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html


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