Hi MIKE,

On 17-Nov-99, MIKE RUSKAI wrote to JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD:

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 JDBP>> It's worth noting, by the way, the very last entry given by FDISK.
 JDBP>> This indicates that there are 5MeB of space on her second physical
 JDBP>> drive that aren't assigned to any partition.  The irony is that with
 JDBP>> the scheme chosen by Linda's guru, this space is completely unusable,
 JDBP>> since no more partitions can be created on the disc.  (Although one
 JDBP>> wonders why the fourth primary partition "J:" was created short like
 JDBP>> this.  Perhaps a side effect of creating the partition using a hex
 JDBP>> editor on the partition table and doing the arithmetic incorrectly ?
 JDBP>> (-:)

 MR> It might have been FDISK that did the bad math.  One of my drives has 7MB
 MR> of empty space at the beginning, and just a single logical drive defined.
 MR> FDISK did it, not me.

I don't think so, what you're seeing on your system is a different
problem (FDISK peculiarity :-( ). When FDISK is told to create an
extended partition on a drive with no primary defined, it creates a
minimum size, hidden, inaccessible, primary partition on the drive at
the start. Why? - don't ask me...

George

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