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From: waltdnes@waltdnes.org
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 06:27:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151126112739.GB27681@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnahauzz.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de>

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:57:20AM +0100, lee wrote

> He said that he "has a primary partition 1, which covers the entire
> hard drive" and "a small / partition".  That made me think that he
> has two disks.

  Primary partitions are numbered 1 through 4 and logical partitions are
numbered 5 and up.  The "primary partition" is the entire physical disk.
5 is the small /, 6 is swap, and 7 is the rest of the disk.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications


  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-26 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-25 22:10 [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output waltdnes
2015-11-25 22:30 ` Jc GarcĂ­a
2015-11-26  0:25   ` Rich Freeman
2015-11-26  0:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Jonathan Callen
2015-11-26  1:33   ` waltdnes
2015-11-26  0:27 ` [gentoo-user] " lee
2015-11-26  1:11   ` Mark David Dumlao
2015-11-26 10:57     ` lee
2015-11-26 11:27       ` waltdnes [this message]
2015-11-26 16:32         ` Neil Bothwick
2015-11-26 17:26         ` Peter Humphrey
2015-11-27 23:13         ` lee
2015-11-28 12:27           ` waltdnes
2015-11-28 12:35             ` Neil Bothwick
2015-11-28 23:52               ` waltdnes
2015-11-29 12:41                 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-11-26 13:53       ` Rich Freeman
2015-11-26 12:57 ` Tom H

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