Re: [Hampshire] Hidden partitions.

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Author: Adam Trickett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Hidden partitions.

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On Sunday 26 November 2006 19:33, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>
> > Below is the result of running sfdisk -l /dev/sda from the Ubuntu CD
> >   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda1          0+   1033    1034-   8305573+  12  Compaq diagnostics
> > /dev/sda2   *   1034    8328    7295   58597087+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/sda3       8329   14592    6264   50315580    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > /dev/sda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
> > /dev/sda5       8329+  14592    6264-  50315548+   7  HPFS/NTFS

>
> How odd - a 4th partition which is empty - not seen that before. You
> should just be able to shrink sda2 and/or sda5 down in size, then use
> the freed up space.


Isn't what they have done is create an extended partition in slot three, then
put a logical partition in it, but as logical partitions start at 5, you are
left with an empty, i.e. non-existent 4?

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Adam Trickett
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