I do NOT understand following statement
Primaries being 4, the first logical partition is always 5. So any partition with number of five and up is a logical one.
I hope we can create maximum 4 primary partitions on the external disk /dev/sdb
Question : 1) how do i find logical partition details on my machine ?
>> Partition table
# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 73400320 sda
8 1 104391 sda1
8 2 20482875 sda2
8 3 10241437 sda3
8 4 1 sda4
8 5 5116671 sda5
8 6 3068383 sda6
8 7 34379068 sda7
>> Partitions on my Linux machine
# df -TH
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 ext3 11G 4.5G 5.2G 47% /
/dev/sda7 ext3 35G 3.8G 29G 12% /u02
/dev/sda6 ext3 3.1G 324M 2.6G 12% /tmp
/dev/sda2 ext3 21G 6.2G 14G 33% /u01
/dev/sda1 ext3 104M 12M 87M 12% /boot
tmpfs tmpfs 1.3G 0 1.3G 0% /dev/shm
.host:/ vmhgfs 105G 72G 34G 69% /mnt/hgfs
/dev/hdc iso9660 3.1G 3.1G 0 100% /media/Enterprise Linux dvd 20100405
Please see above outpiut, /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5 is not there.
Question : 2) How do i find missing partitions ? /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5 ?
Thanks