[ILUG] dying hard disc - upgrade questions?

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Brian Foster wrote:

>   + extended partitions should only be be the last in each table
>     (and indeed, in the last (4th) slot of the MBRs table);

Hmm, really? I've often created extend partitions in between primary 
partitions.
 
>   + there is an indeterminate number of logical partitions per
>     extended;

There may be limits in how many an OS supports though, cant remember 
if Linux has such a limit. It definitely had a limit in how many 
partitions can be on a disk (least for scsi disks - was limited to 15 
- probably still is).
 
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