Partitioning question

[Alexander Skwar]

Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com>:

> Hi Ouattara,
> 
> Tks for your advice.
> 
>> Let's take a look at that :
>> 
>>  > /dev/hda1               1        2342    18812083+   5  Extended
>>  > /dev/hda5   *           1          31      248944+  83  Linux
>>  > /dev/hda6              32        1004     7815591   83  Linux
>>  > /dev/hda7            1005        2220     9767488+  83  Linux
>>  > /dev/hda8            2221        2342      979933+  82  Linux swap
>> /
>> 
>> /dev/hda1 is Extented : This is not a "real" partition. It's a way to
>> 
>> permit more than 3 partitions on a disk. 
> 
> If I understand it correct, /dev/hda1 is part of the space on HD
> allocated to Ubuntu.  In future if the remaining space used totally by
> another OS it will be /dev/hda2.

If there's space left on your drive, then yes, you could create a hda2 or
hda3 or hda4.

> If I'm wrong please correct me. 
> 
> 
> What about/whereis /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4?  Tks

They don't exist. Partitions 1 - 4 are primary partitions. They don't
have to exist - they CAN exist. Partitions starting from 5 are "logical
drives" inside a extended partition. An extended partition is one of
the 4 possible partitions.

Alexander Skwar
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