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Old 01-10-2009
Why do I have partitions with one command but not in gparted
Hi,

I used gparted in ubuntu to re partiton my slave hard drive so according to it I just have a logical drive with one partition in it.

But when I do sfdisk -l I get:

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 0+ 9728 9729- 78148161 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty

What's with all the 0 sized partitions?
# 2  
Old 01-11-2009
MSDOS partition tables contain 4 primary partitions, even if they are not used. Some programmes will display the empty/unused ones, some will not... in the end the result is the same.
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Old 01-12-2009
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Originally Posted by Annihilannic
MSDOS partition tables contain 4 primary partitions, even if they are not used. Some programmes will display the empty/unused ones, some will not... in the end the result is the same.
You lost me. I am not running MSDOS. THe drive is formatted with Ext3. So why is there an issue with MSDOS?
Last edited by mojoman; 01-12-2009 at 11:07 AM..
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Old 01-12-2009
x86* computers use the partition table type as defined by MS-DOS
 
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