Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:51:54 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: /proc/partitions broken in 2.5.23 |
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:44:02PM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> hda2 is odd looking too showing a #blocks of '1', when > it's actually.. > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda2 234 58168 29199240 5 Extended
That is correct, and something I did before you were born.
An extended partition is a box containing logical partitions. It is almost always an error when people want to write directly to it (confusing the extended partition with some logical partition inside). After a number of reports of people who messed up their disk by doing mkswap or mkfs on an extended partition I changed the length of an extended partition to 1 block, enough for LILO but stopping mkswap and mkfs. People who really want to access these blocks, like e.g. fdisk, can do so via /dev/hda.
Andries
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