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Re: Another guess about Partition Magic choking on sfdisk-created
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu Sep 26 00:04:45 2002
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:04:43 -0400
Message-Id: <200209260404.AAA10937@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: wdc@MIT.EDU
CC: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <1033010505.23451.144.camel@tokata.mit.edu> (message from Bill
Cattey on 25 Sep 2002 23:21:45 -0400)
I highly recommend that anyone still trying to follow this discussion go
read the "THEORY" section of the sfdisk man page. There's a lot of good
information there, including this useful confirmation:
Each partition has a type, its `Id', and if this type is 5 or f
(`extended partition') the starting sector of the partition again
contains 4 partition descriptors. MSDOS only uses the first two
of these: the first one an actual data partition, and the second
one again an extended partition (or empty). In this way one gets
a chain of extended partitions.
The "-E" option also has some related implications which I'm not totally
sure I understand, but which I think don't matter.
>Is it possible that fdisk does but sfdisk does not put serial numbers on
>the partitions?
I don't know; I suspect that if we could translate "serial numbers" to
whatever the rest of the world calls it, the answer would end up being
"yes". (I've never heard of partition serial numbers, anyway.)
