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[Adam Jimerson <vendion@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

When getting my desktop ready for openSUSE 11.0, resizing the windoze 
partition to make more room in /home, I noticed two partitions on the hard 
drive that I did not create, but what is even weider is when I add up all the 
partition sizes it says the drive is bigger than it really is.  I have the 
output of YaST partitioner, and fdisk all look a bit odd to me:

YaST2
  /dev/sda              111.7 GB                WDC-ED1200JS-00N
  /dev/sda1     38.3 GB         HPFS/NTFS                       /windows/C
  /dev/sda2     68.4 GB         Extended
  /dev/sda5     2.0  GB         Linux swap                      swap
  /dev/sda6     20.0 GB         Linux native
  /dev/sda7     18.5 GB         Linux native                    /
  /dev/sda8     27.8 GB         Linux native                    /home

fdisk
  Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb9290507

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        5009    40229102    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            5663       14593    71738257+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            5663        5924     2104483+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6            5925        8535    20972826   83  Linux
/dev/sda7            8536       10958    19462716   83  Linux
/dev/sda8           10959       14593    29198106   83  Linux

I know I did not create the sda2 and sda6 partitions on the disk, and seeing 
as how sda6 is not mounted anywhere I can just put that space to good use 
somewhere, but I don't know about the extended partition is there a way I can 
check and see what is is for?
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