On 03/03/2010 12:15 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Jatin K<ssh.fedora(a)gmail.com> :
> I've facing one problem ( doing partitioning practice on 10GB IDE
> hard-disk )
>
I dont understand why is it really a problem.
*what if you are on RHCE exam ...... and question is related to
partitioning a hdd in said partitions and mount points *
> if I go ahead with this and create other partition / goes to
hda5
> why like this ????
>
On old disks, and I dont know the real reasons, you only have 4 primary
partitions.
The other partitions over those 4 are "logical" ones.
Logical partitions are hda5+
When you created 4 primary partitions, the system automatically create
the 4th one as extended and places the other partitions are hda5+.
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