Thread: Help to dot one's i's and cross one's t's on booting from a flash card
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2008-08-05 , 20:26
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Originally Posted by Gomez View Post
3) Why zero-size unformatted partitions 3 and 4?
Whenever you partition a drive you can always make 4 primary partitions.. no more.. no less.. (obviously there are ways around this.. strictly speaking standards here).

sfdisk will show you all 4 possible partitions available on a disk or drive no matter if they are present are not.

So.. if I format my SD card with only 1 partition that is 8GB large.. sfdisk will show me 1 partition with data, and 3 empty partitions. If I have 3 partitions on my drive.. you'll see 3 and 1 empty... etc.
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