Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!ois.db.toronto.edu!tron Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware From: tron@db.toronto.edu ("Carlos G. Mendioroz") Subject: Re: Partition table Message-ID: <91Apr4.072134est.2140@ois.db.toronto.edu> Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto References: <2218@pdxgate.UUCP> Distribution: comp Date: 4 Apr 91 12:21:51 GMT Lines: 22 berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) writes: >achilles@unixland.uucp (David Holland) writes: >>Owing to some recent computer trouble I've been poking somewhat deeper into >>my system than usual, and I noticed the following interesting oddity about >>the partition table: there are only two partitions listed, > The partition table allows up to four physical partitions on a fixed disk. One of them is the Primary DOS part. and the other is the secondary DOS part. >>>one of which is >>twice as large as the other, and only one of them is marked DOS. The disk >>contains three equal-sized partitions, all of which are DOS; where is this >>information stored? Or does Norton's partition-table editor mislead me? The primary OSid is 4 (or 6, depending your OS version) That's the one that is being listed as DOS. The secondary OSid is 5, and DOS (>3.something) supports many 'logical partitions' inside it. I'd bet you have two defined, same size, what brings you 3 same size DOS volumes in only two 1:2 sized partitions...