Re: [opensuse] ext3 check forced = frustration On Sunday 17 February 2008 10:06:15 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Sunday 2008-02-17 at 08:35 -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 February 2008 08:22:34 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
> >> In fact, it is even less. One primary, one extended, the rest are
> >> logical, and you waste numbers 3 and 4: 13 partitions are left for real
> >> use (1,2,5,..15)
> >
> > Extended is entry in partition table, so you can use 3 primary + 1
> > extended. I use 2 + 1 and nobody is complaining.
>
> Of course you can, but it is less flexible. Once that #2 is extended type,
> it's not so simple to change any of them to be #3 and #4. Resizing gets
> too complex.

:-)  Sure. Though, it depends on what is /dev/sda1.

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        3135    25173855    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            6672       19457   102703514    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3   *        3135        6672    28410952   83  Linux
/dev/sda5            6672        6933     2104483+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6            6934        9366    19543041   83  Linux
/dev/sda7            9367       13014    29302528+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8           13015       18237    41945715   83  Linux
/dev/sda9           18237       19457     9807619+  83  Linux

Can you see something unusual with /dev/sda3 ? 
It was created by squeezing windows more than it wwas right after 
installation.  

-- 
Regards, Rajko.
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