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On Sun, 21 Apr 96 12:30:55 EDT, in article <9604211630.AA11646@nile.gnat.com>, Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
>I thought that only one primary partition could exist on a disk. If this
>is true, it is hardly a bug that software blows up if you misformat
>the disk. Sounds to me like IBM's solution is the reasonable one, though
>perhaps someone on the list can provide a workaround.
No, that's not true. You can have as many primary partitions on the disk
you want. (Take an example: if you instaled OS/2 using a FAT filesystem
but choose to use the boot manager so that you can boot OS/2 or DOS, you
would end up having two primary FAT partitions. This is not counting
cases like you install Linux and it adds a non-FAT primary partition to
your disk.)
Whether the software supports this is another question.
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