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Ahah...
Thanks for the info.

Dave
reddwarf@octa4.net.au

DaZZa wrote in message ...
>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
>