On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 14:36 +1000, Sagar Koirala wrote: > Thanks for your help Sean, did all the steps you mentioned. One thing > I don't understand, when partitions are created, why does Linux number > it awkwardly? For example, I created 1 Primary partition of 10% disk, > then created 1 Extended partition of 90% disk. Inside that extended > partition, I created 3 logical partitions 33% each. It went numbering > sdb1, sdb5, sdb6 and sdb7. Where's the hell 2,3 and 4? Anyways, I've > got my partitions now and formatted them so, it's all good. > -- It is because you created an "Extended Partition". john