The empty primary partition, where should it be
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From: T o n g on 29 Jun 2010 18:10 Hi, Do you have empty primary partitions? Have you noticed where they are? When leaving an empty primary partition, I'm thinking: /dev/hda1 Primary /dev/hda2 Primary /dev/hda3 Empty /dev/hda4 Extended /dev/hda5 Logical but what I found most existing partitions look like this: /dev/hda1 Primary /dev/hda2 Primary /dev/hda3 Extended /dev/hda4 Empty /dev/hda5 Logical Ie, empty partition *after* the extended partition. This seems weird to me -- "does the empty partition actually belong to the extended partition?" But since (almost) every tool is creating partitions like this, there must be a reason for it. Can anyone shed some lights? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i0dqsj$bkf$1(a)dough.gmane.org
From: Klistvud on 29 Jun 2010 18:40 Dne, 30. 06. 2010 00:08:19 je T o n g napisal(a): > > /dev/hda1 Primary > /dev/hda2 Primary > /dev/hda3 Empty > /dev/hda4 Extended > /dev/hda5 Logical > > but what I found most existing partitions look like this: > > /dev/hda1 Primary > /dev/hda2 Primary > /dev/hda3 Extended > /dev/hda4 Empty > /dev/hda5 Logical > By Empty, do you mean: a) unpartitioned space b) zero-length partition c) partition with no filesystem (unformatted) or d) none of the above? If c), you could always create the partition as Primary and *then* delete its filesystem -- that way, methinks, you could probably place it anywhere you like. Particularly with a GUI tool such as gparted. -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1277851089.21705.0(a)compax
From: T o n g on 29 Jun 2010 18:50 On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:38:09 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > By Empty, do you mean: > a) unpartitioned space > b) zero-length partition > c) partition with no filesystem (unformatted) or > d) none of the above? d: % sfdisk -l -x /dev/hda Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 0+ 5 6- 1223+ a OS/2 Boot Manager /dev/hda2 6 256 251 51204 6 DOS 16-bit FAT >=32M /dev/hda3 257 1023 767 156468 5 Extended /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/hda5 257+ 357 101- 20603+ 4 DOS 16-bit FAT <32M - 358 1023 666 135864 5 Extended - 257 256 0 0 0 Empty - 257 256 0 0 0 Empty . . . See the /dev/hda4? -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i0dsqi$bkf$2(a)dough.gmane.org
From: T o n g on 29 Jun 2010 19:10 On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:41:22 +0000, T o n g wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:38:09 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > >> By Empty, do you mean: >> a) unpartitioned space >> b) zero-length partition >> c) partition with no filesystem (unformatted) or d) none of the above? > > d: > > . . . > /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty Oh, I know where the confusion is coming from now. My mistake, I was talking about an *empty partition table entry* in the MBR. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i0dudm$lnf$1(a)dough.gmane.org
From: Richard Hector on 6 Jul 2010 07:50
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 22:08 +0000, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Do you have empty primary partitions? Have you noticed where they are? > > When leaving an empty primary partition, I'm thinking: > > /dev/hda1 Primary > /dev/hda2 Primary > /dev/hda3 Empty > /dev/hda4 Extended > /dev/hda5 Logical > > but what I found most existing partitions look like this: > > /dev/hda1 Primary > /dev/hda2 Primary > /dev/hda3 Extended > /dev/hda4 Empty > /dev/hda5 Logical I never create that many partitions these days :-) I might create one for /boot, and one for swap, but other than that everything goes in LVM on the one partition. So max 3 (unless I have more than one drive, of course). And they're all Primary. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1278416568.30144.10.camel(a)diamond.lan.walnut.gen.nz |