More on "Unreadable" Partition Tables

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 03:11:45PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> 
> I wasn't aware that it was legal to punch a hole in an extended 
> partition with a non-extended partition.

That is why I think that this sda4 is not really a primary
and only something gets really confused.  You are right
that checking an output of 'sfdisk -dx /dev/sda' would be
highly advisable.  Maybe a content of a file system on
the current /dev/sda4 should be saved and restored later?

    Michal