Names of Windows partitions

[Avi Greenbury]

Doug Stewart wrote:
> Why is sda4 so different?
>   
It is an extended partition.
In short, you are limited to four logical partitions per volume in 
general. To get round this, you make one of them an 'extended' 
partition, which is a partition type that can contain others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning#PC_BIOS_partition_types

Also, you might want to clean out under your ? key.

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Avi.