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Re: CORRECTION: Odd error from Partition Magic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Fri Sep 20 00:04:20 2002
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:04:17 -0400
Message-Id: <200209200404.AAA03731@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
CC: wdc@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU, jmhunt@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <200209190417.AAA15418@error-messages.mit.edu> (message from Greg
Hudson on Thu, 19 Sep 2002 00:17:36 -0400)
I'm not so sure that sfdisk is creating cascading logical partition
tables, at least not because of this:
Note that the LBA "Start" sector is 1 for each of the logical
partitions. Unless sfdisk created overlapping partitions (which I
think we would have noticed), that implies that each logical
partition lives at the beginning of a distinct extended partition.
Every linux system that I have handy has an lba start sector reported
like this by fdisk's expert mode. This implies to me that either fdisk
is broken, the field is meaningless for a logical partition, or that
there are indeed cascading extended and logical partitions, but "they all
do that". I don't know enough to know which of these is true.
