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From: achilles@unixland.uucp (David Holland)
Subject: Partition table
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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 91 01:17:55 EST

Owing to some recent computer trouble I've been poking somewhat deeper into 
my system than usual, and I noticed the following interesting oddity about 
the partition table: there are only two partitions listed, one of which is 
twice as large as the other, and only one of them is marked DOS. The disk 
contains three equal-sized partitions, all of which are DOS; where is this 
information stored? Or does Norton's partition-table editor mislead me?
 
As might be expected it's the boot partition that is marked DOS in the 
partition table...
 
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 David A. Holland
 
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