🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, ochre small wrote:

>  I have the same problem on my HDD. (hda1=w95, hda5=ext2, hda6=swap), so its
> not unique to SCSI devices.  I have tried destroying partitions and
> reinstalling using disk druid (RH5.2) and Linux fdisk, but they stubbornly
> remain with a gap (1,5,6).

The reason for this is simple.

Disk druid creates an *extended* partition, not a primary partition.

Extended partitions look something like this.

[[				][		]]
	HDA5				HDA6
	
			HDA4

{Sorry,t hat might not be real clear}.

Basically, the partition utility creates one LARGE extended partition
using all the available hard disk space, and then a number of smaller
partitions *inside* that large partition.

You never see hda4, since it's, in effect, just a wrapping for hda5 and
hda6.

As for the original fellow's query on why he's got sda3 and sda4 but no
sda1 and 2 - perhaps when partitioning, he made partitions 3 and 4 when
asked by FDISK.

Or perhaps sda1 and sda2 were deleted at some stage.

DaZZa