Re: Partition ID problem.

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From: Richard RUDEK
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 00:00

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Regit Young <regit@wantree.com.au> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Recently when I did a fdisk, I realised that I have wrong entries in the
>partition table. ie.
>/dev/sda3 ....
>/dev/sda4 ....
>
>without sda1 and sda2 ??
>
>I'm interested to know how to solve this, even more interested to know
>what cause it. Any suggestions are deeply appreciated.

What problem. There's no hard and defined rule that states partitions have
to be allocated from partition 1 upwards. In fact MSDOS traditionally used
what's considered partition 4 in Linux, first. 

Note Zip disks also seem to use partition 4.
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