[ltp] Copying Files

[Bob Alexander]

ROTFL !!! I wrote an entirely IDIOT comment not watching carefully my 
OWN fdisk output !!! Sorry. My mistake !!! Evidently the things I wrote 
are not current anymore. IIRC they where like I wrote still in all 2.4 
kernels.

Bob

Bob Alexander wrote:

> AFAIK an HD can contain max 4 partitions. The PRIMARY partitions are 
> numbered /hdX1 to hdX4. The EXTENDED partition gets the /dev/hdX5 
> identifier and the LOGICAL partitions into it get the /dev/hdX6 and 
> onwards.
>
> For example my setup is as follows:
>
> 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9914 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1        4063    30716248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3            4064        9914    44233560    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5            4064        8822    35978008+   b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/hda6            8823        8958     1028128+  82  Linux swap / 
> Solaris
> /dev/hda7   *        8959        9433     3590968+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda8            9434        9914     3636328+  83  Linux