Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1390 mails)

[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. said the following on 03/02/2010 07:47 PM:

> > This isn't making any sense.  If the order of the cinders is irrelevant
> > what is the underlying logic.
>
> The partition numbers depends on where in a table is each partition 
> listed. There are four entries, the first one is numbered "one" - even if 
> it is physically the last partition in the disk. The table is boss, 
> pysical layout is arbitrary. Kind of.
>
> > Are you saying that the whole thing gets re-written on every edit?
>
> No.

But surely it has to.
When I shrank the second partition and put a new one in there ...

Are you saying the table entry existed anyway?
Its not about a table, its a bout 'slots'?

Does it have some way of telling zero from a blank entry?
(larry wall apropos quote goes here)

Well a 'slots' approach begs the question about the number of slots for
the partition in the extended partition.  Only one extended partition,
you say ...




> > > And the sofware will not
> > > get confused by that. Only us ;-)
>
> > Well that last statement is certainly true!
>
> :-)
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