Le 09/12/2009 19:10, Felix Miata a écrit :
The reason for distinguishing between "primary" and "logical" partitions applies entirely to the boot process
that's not true. In fact I had the same thinking for several years. But as the author of the Partition Rescue HOWTO, I was made aware by a reader that logical partitions have to store the Inodes/fat somewhere and this somewhere is the first sector of the partition. So very soon after the logical partition creation some bits are written to the drive on theses sectors. If you happen to have data there, you can lose things. This is important when one have lost the partition table and don't have the exact data on paper. Using guesses can destroy some bits of data. there is no similar problem for primaries, as they data is in the first disk sector, never used for storing data jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org