[sleuthkit-users] Extended Partitions [was] RE: Problem adding image

[Sid P. - S. P. <sp...@si...>]

On Sunday 09 March 2003 14:58, Sid Porter - Silent Partner wrote:
> Your disk will have primary partition /dev/hda1 and also partitions
> /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 /dev/hda4

When I compiled this information I presented actual data from my own syst=
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which is a notebook computer with a single IDE disk partitioned as above.

However, when I got the above labels from Fdisk, I had to delete a large =
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of my pre-composed info that talked about a disk having max two partition=
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primary and extended, and the extended holding logical partitions. My own=
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setup contradicts this, and I can't even remember installing this system =
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that long ago.=20

What happened to the notion of extended partitions? Is this now obsolete =
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new IDE technology? Or just uncessary for linux, and still used by Window=
s?

Sid.