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echo: os2
to: Linda Proulx
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1999-11-19 13:17:19
subject: fdisk /query

 LP>>> DriveName Partition Vtype FStype Status Start Size
 LP>>> 
 LP>>> 1 0000003f      c:    1     06       2     0  1023
 LP>>> 1 001ffe00      d:    1     06       0  1023   511
 LP>>> 1 002ffd00      e:    1     06       0  1535   511
 LP>>> 1 003ffc00      f:    1     06       0  2047   397
 LP>>> 2 0000003f      g:    1     06       2     0  1023
 LP>>> 2 001ffe00      h:    1     06       0  1023  1023
 LP>>> 2 003ffc00      i:    1     06       0  2047  1023
 LP>>> 2 005ffa00      j:    1     06       0  3071   259
 LP>>> 2 00681900       :    0     00       0  3331     5
 LP>>> **BIOS: 504MB

 JdP>> It's worth noting, by the way, the very last entry given by FDISK.
 JdP>> This indicates that there are 5MeB of space on her second physical
 JdP>> [disc that aren't used by any partition.]

 LP> O is a DOS double space drive.

There is no O: listed above.  We are only concerned with, and FDISK only
displays, partitions.  A DoubleSpace drive is not a partition.

 JdP>> [One] wonders why the fourth primary partition "J:" was created short 
 JdP>> like [this.]

 LP> It was what was left over. That's all.

According to the above display from FDISK, there are 5MeB *still* left over.

 ¯ JdeBP ®

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