Re: misc/45695: fdisk(8) has misleading naming of logical partitions

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/45695; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: misc/45695: fdisk(8) has misleading naming of logical partitions
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 12:14:16 +0000

 On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 01:10:01AM +0000, gnrp%komkon2.de@localhost wrote:
  > fdisk(8) has no mention of the word 'logical' partition, but always
  > talks about extended partitions. This is misleading, there is only
  > one extended partition (though several EBRs), the inner ones are
  > usually called logical partitions.
 
 Doesn't that depend on whose documentation you've been reading?
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost