Hidden partition

[Vram]

On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 21:19 +0200, Thomas Templin wrote:
> On Saturday 16 July 2005 16:39, Vram wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 09:50 -0400, Ed Fletcher wrote:
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> > > Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
> > > > i am no expert and probably wrong
> > > > but maybe you should try to checks if your primary partition
> > > > limit (4) has been reached.
> > > > if do try changing one of the primary partions to logical
> > > > ones.
> > > >
> > > > On 7/16/05, *Myron Slover* <tewlmanster at gmail.com
> > > > <mailto:tewlmanster at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >     I set up my harddrive with Fedoracore4 and Ubuntu. I have
> > > > a 80 gig hd. I set them up with each an individual home
> > > > partition,root partition, and boot. They share swap.
> > > >       Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
> > > >     16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155114 cylinders
> > > >     Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> > > >
> > > >        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id 
> > > > System /dev/hda1   *           1         406      204592+  83
> > > >  Linux /dev/hda2             407       30882    15359904   83
> > > >  Linux /dev/hda3           30883       51199    10239768   83
> > > >  Linux /dev/hda4           51200      102108    25658136    5
> > > >  Extended /dev/hda5           51200       53280     1048792+ 
> > > > 82  Linux swap / Solaris
> > > >     /dev/hda6           53281       53668      195520+  83 
> > > > Linux /dev/hda7           53669       73044     9765472+  83 
> > > > Linux /dev/hda8           73045      102108    14648224+  83 
> > > > Linux Qparted lists dev/hda9 as being a hidden partition. I
> > > > saved 25 gigs to install another Linux distro. I cannot use
> > > > the 25 gigs I saved because it is flagged as hidden. I
> > > > installed fc4 first and then Ubuntu. Ubuntu labeled the 25
> > > > gigs as hidden. I guess I need to learn more about formatting
> > > > hardrives. How do I flag the partition as not hidden? Thanks,
> > > >     Myron Slover
> > >
> > > You have three primary partitions so that's not the problem.
> >
> > He has four primary partitions..  The fourth primary <hda4> is
> > special type of primary called extended....
> 
> An extended partition  may be seen as a container for logical 
> partitions. For your disk partition 5 to 8 are logical ones.


And that was my point!!!


The logical partition are on the extended primary

Vram