Disk partition

Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer at gmail.com
Sun Jul 19 19:44:11 UTC 2015


On 07/19/2015 11:36 AM, g wrote:
>> Logical partitions within the extended partition will always be
>> >numbered consecutively starting with 5. If you delete or merge
>> >some logical partitions, all of the higher partition numbers will
>> >shift down.
> if you can post a mutual site that i can upload a jpg, i would be more
> than happy to upload a shot of 'disk utility' showing;
>
>     sdb1        sdb2         sdb3        sdb6        sdb5
>     12 GB NTFS  2.1 GB Swap  11 GB ext4  32 GB ext4  23 GB ext4

In your case, "sdb5" appears to be listed in the logical partition table 
before "sdb6", but describe an area that appears further into the disk.

That doesn't contradict what Robert wrote.


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