Subject: Re: A new partition handling scheme: wedges
To: None <bouyer@chassiron.ensta.fr>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@tools.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/26/1998 14:37:14
> One in the MBR for NetBSD, one for FreeBSD, one for Linux ...
> This leave only one extended partition. How much partition
> can we put in an extended partition ?
> If we make recursive partitions, I wonder if Linux could read them ...

Extended partitions are just like the complete disk, i.e. they have a MBR
of their own and thus can have again 4 partitions.  And yes, AFAIK that's
the way Linux _does_ their partitioning...

Ciao,
Wolfgang
-- 
ws@TooLs.DE     (Wolfgang Solfrank, TooLs GmbH) 	+49-228-985800