--- On Tue, 3/2/10, Anton Aylward
Dave Howorth said the following on 03/02/2010 09:35 AM:
... Lets see, I have from fdisk: reordered to make sense
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1276 2530 10080787+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda4 2531 2550 160650 83 Linux /dev/sda3 * 2551 9729 57665317+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda6 2551 2557 56164+ 83 Linux (/boot) /dev/sda7 2558 2836 2241036 83 Linux (/) /dev/sda8 2837 2845 72261 82 Linux swap /dev/sda5 2846 9729 55295698+ 8e Linux LVM
The sda4 is the "newboot" that I made by shrinking sda2 and where I want to move to
So what I think is that (hd0,4) is the actual extended partition, not the 'first' partition in the extended partition.
The "extended partition" CONTAINS additional "logical partitions" -- at least this was always the case with IDE drives. The drive used to allow only 4 physical partitions. To get more than 4 partitions on your drive, you would have to take one of the physical partitions and subdivide it into "logical patritions". The divided partion would then be called the "extended partition". Obviously, on your drive, the "extended partition" is sda3. When you install onto a clean drive, the partitions are numbered in the order in which they are found on the drive -- that has always been my experience. When you insert partitions later, I don't know what happens, but leaving the numbers of the existing partitions unchanged makes sense -- the numbers might be referenced by the existing installations. That might explain why sda4 now precedes sda3. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org