On 22/06/2011, at 20:34, Keith Sayers wrote: > Out of curiosity, why > sda5 and not sda3? Primary partitions are numbered 1 to 4. I.e sda1, sda2, sda3 & sda4. The extended partition is a container partition to hold logical partitions. Logical partitions start at number 5. I.e sda5, sda6 etc