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[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

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. It is not uncommon to have a disk with primaries at both
beginning and end of disk, with an extended in the middle. When this
happens, the extended will be xda2 or xda3 instead of xda4, and xda2 is
fairly typical after configuring with M$ supported partitioning tools
that first set one primary, then set one or more logicals. I don't think
I've ever seen an extended as xda1. I think all tools reserve the #1
position for a primary. In any event, logicals are always labeled
beginning with xda5.
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