From: stryder@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   On Tuesday 03 July 2012 16:26, Daniel47@teranews.com conveyed the   
   following to alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   > unruh wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2012-07-03, Daniel47@teranews.com    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On this HP 6730b Laptop I currently have Windows 7, Mandriva 2009.0   
   >>> and Mandriva 2010.0 on the 250GB HD and I want to install Mandriva   
   >>> 2011 and Mageina 2.   
   >>>   
   >>> Current break up of sda:-   
   >>> sda1	60GB	NTFS-3G	Windows 7 C:   
   >>> sda2	22GB	NTFS-3G	Programs D:   
   >>> sda3	19GB	NTFS-3G	Games E:   
   >>> sda5	4GB		Linux Swap   
   >>> sda6	20GB	Ext3	/     Mandriva 2009.0	(15.5GB free)   
   >>> sda7	18GB	Ext3	/alt  Mandriva 2010.0	(13.6GB free)   
   >>> sda8	85GB	Ext3	/Home			(57.2GB free)   
   >   
   > [...]   
   >   
   >>> Side question	What has likely happened to sda4??   
   >>   
   >> 1-4 are primary partitions, 5-x are logical. You only have three   
   >> primary partitions.   
      
   No, he has /four/ primary partitions.  The extended partition container   
   is itself also a primary partition, since it has its own partition entry   
   in the partition table of the MBR.   
      
   >> Thus 1-3.   
   >   
   > So sda 4 (primary) has become sda's 5-8 (logical)!   
      
   No, /dev/sda4 is now the extended partition container, which contains a   
   secondary partition table, which in turn contains the partition entries   
   for /dev/sda5, /dev/sda6, /dev/sda7 and /dev/sda8. ;-)   
      
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