Felix Miata wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
It may be that SUSE's partition tool in YaST (which is really parted) will always name it hda4 (don't know, don't remember, and I'm not about to repartition my drive to find out) but that is very different from saying it's always like that in unix and linux.
I do believe DOS fdisk will always use this naming structure though. Perhaps that's what you were thinking of
The MBR partition table has 4 entry positions for the 4 possible primary partition entries. Partitioning tools tend to use those entry positions in FIFO order, but there is no rule that says they must, nor is there one that says the 4th must be the one used for the extended if there is an extended.
Wasn't this exactly what I said in the section of my mail that you snipped? Except for the FIFO thing, which isn't true for the tools I use. They just ask you which number partition you would like to edit