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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 18:38:01 -0600
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, sab@seanet.com
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: MSDOS extended partitions and "slices"
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You can't have an extended partition within an extended partition,
so this diagram "does not compute."

--Brett

At 07:20 PM 9/2/98 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
 
>In the last episode (Sep 02), Brett Glass said:
>> At 05:56 PM 9/2/98 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote
>> >+--------+-----------------------------------------------------+
>> >|   C:   |                 extended  partition                 |
>> >+--------+- - - - + - - - -+- - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - -+
>> >         |   D:   |   E:   |   F:   |      extended part.      |
>> >         +--------------------------+ - - - - - - - - - - - - -+
>> >                                    |   G:   |   H:   |   I:   |
>> >                                    +--------------------------+
>> >
>> >In your naming scheme, what would drive 'G:' be?  wd1s2da ? 
>>
>> DOS logical drives are not slices! They're the equivalent of
>> disklabel partitions and should have letters at the end.
>
>What would you like the dos drive 'G:' named in your naming scheme? 
>
>	-Dan Nelson
>	dnelson@emsphone.com


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