I agree with this. But, when you delete a logical partition and then add one or more logical partitions in its place, fdisks screws up the partition numbers. As an example: /dev/hda1 - primary /dev/hda2 - extended /dev/hda5 - logical 1 /dev/hda6 - logical 2 /dev/hda7 - logical 3. Delete hda6. Create 2 logical partitions in that same space, here's what you get: /dev/hda1 - primary /dev/hda2 - extended /dev/hda5 - logical 1 /dev/hda7 - logical 3. /dev/hda8 - logical - first part of what was hda6 /dev/hda9 - logical - Second part of what was hda6. Warrl wrote:
fdisk can delete any partition, except a secondary partition which currently contains logical partitions.
In short, even if you only want to deal with Microsoft MS-DOS and kin, fdisk is a better tool for you than FDISK.
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Jerry Feldman