Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:49:36 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tim Fletcher <> | Subject | Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order? |
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> What is the difference between physical and logical partitions ?
primary (what you call physical) partitions are partitions in their own right logical partitions are partitions within a special partition
> How does this solve the "I deleted hda5 and now the old hda6 became > hda5" problem ?
It doesn't nothing can as the way that the pcbios extended partition works as a (linked?) list of partitions so removing one shuffles the rest up.
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