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SubjectRe: Parition Slices
Adam Sulmicki writes:
> Richard Gooch writes:
> ->you have 4 main partitions, which may be either "primary" or
> ->"extended". They are numbered 1 to 4. Changing a primary to an
> ->extended does not change the partition numbers for the main
> ->partitions.
> ->
> ->The subpartitions within extended partitions are called logical
> ->partitions, and they start counting from 5. There is the potential for
> ->these to be renumbered, if you change a primary partition to an
> ->extended partition (where there is another extended partition after
> ->it). The logical partitions in the second extended partition will be
> ->renumbered.
> ->
> ->So, the only problem you should have is if you create *two* extended
> ->partitions and populate them both. While this is a potential problem,
> ->I don't think it really matters because there isn't much point to
> ->having multiple extended partitions. A single extended partition can
> ->hold plenty of logical partitions.
>
> But it is not such rare either. If I happen to have bsd-subpartitions,
> slices, and dos-subpartitions ,extended partitions, then the ID's tend to
> jump in the current implementation. BSD here's just an example, it could
> be Solaris slices, or mac stuff, or Minix, or maybe even future raw
> (sub-)paritions.
>
> You suggest to solve this problem to assign 'slice' to bsd-style
> sub-partitions.
>
> I think that it would be much simpler to just decide that whatever is
> inside of a primary partition be it 'dos extended partition' or a 'bsd
> slices' or whatever else like Minix. should have their own ID. I think
> that we can just call them 'slices'. If there's no slices it would be
> just 's0' or we could skip it altogether.

When this was discussed a year ago, it was my understanding that
multiple BSD slices (for example) could fit into a partition (be it
primary or logical). Is this not the case?

If not, what is the complete story with partitioning, slicing and all
the rest? At which levels can things be subdivided?

Regards,

Richard....

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