Partitioning question

[Gary W. Swearingen]

Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> writes:

> · Gary W. Swearingen <garys at opusnet.com>:
>
>> Ouattara Oumar Aziz <wattazoum at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Here is the actual state of your disk referring to the block mapping
>>>
>>> <--------------/dev/hda1------------------------------------->
>>> <--/dev/hda5--><---/dev/hda6---><--/dev/hda7--><--/dev/hda8-->
>> 
>> Even that is something of a fiction, it seems.  According to
>> http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwtab.htm the partition tables implement a
>> concept for which the partitions > 4 are best thought of as similar to
>> the primary extended partition
>
> Hm - "primary extended parition"... Bad wording: There's no such
> thing. hda1 is a primary partition of type 0x05, which means that
> the partition type is "Extended".

All you've told me there is that you believe the fiction and are
willing to ignore the factual details.  You haven't begun to address
the web site's claim and diagram (Ex 1) which shows multiple extended
partitions, only one of which is the "primary extended partition".
(Actually, Linux permits (or once permitted) up to 4 primary extended
partitions, as well.)  It seems that you didn't even bother to look at
the web page or other docs on the actual low-level layout of
partitions on a disk.  I'd welcome a reference to something which
convincingly contradicts that page, but please don't bother me with
yet another recitation of Partitioning For Dummies.