Partitioning question

[Alexander Skwar]

Gary W. Swearingen <garys at opusnet.com>:

> 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.

Well.
Fact is, that cyl. 1 of hda5 and hda1 are exactly the same cyl.
Can we agree on this?

>   It seems that you didn't even bother to look at
> the web page

true.

> or other docs on the actual low-level layout of 
> partitions on a disk.

Also true.

> 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.

Well, okay,  

Alexander Skwar
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