Recognizing a hard drive

[Joseph C. Lininger]

You have it mostly right. The only correction I'd make is that the extended partition is not listed as a /dev/hda<x>. Rather, /dev/hda5 is just your first logical drive. There wouldn't really be any reason to list the extended partition as a number anyway since you can't do anything with it except use it to get around the 4 partition limit.

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Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Shaun Oliver wrote:

> *SNIP*
> Use mkfs2ext, I think it is, again as root, to build the
> file systems.  I may have that second command wrong.
>
> you're right about it being wrong,
> the command is mke2fs /dev/xxx where xxx is the partition number you
> want to format.
> if I remember some of my basics correctly, and anyone feel free to jump
> down my throat and tell me to go learn it again if I have it wrong,
> your ide devices are listed as follows.
> /dev/hda the primary master,
> /dev/hda1 through 4 are the first 4 primary partitions on the disk
> /dev/hda5 is an extended partition and anything above that is a logical
> partition.
> /dev/hdb if memory serves is the second ide device on the first ide
> channel.
> and /dev/hdc is the secondary master on the second ide channel and
> /dev/hdd is the secondary slave on that second ide channel.
> I hope I got it right please god let it be so.
>
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