I'm "repairing" our minister's notebook which is basically a Windows disk 
jammed to overflowing in C: and next to empy in D:, and unable to do any real 
work (with sloshing in C:, compression and indexing turned on). Seeking 
reliability and familiar with what I do, he's asked to "see this Linux thing" 
(as well as getting the machine usable again in Windows XP) so I'm planning 
to reconfigure his machine and give him a relatively small Linux bootable 
partition, OpenOffice and Evolution, as well as returning the XP partition to 
usability.
     But something I see about the single physical disk drive has left me 
confused: Booting a Knoppix CDROM and doing "cat /etc/fstab" I see a single 
partition, hda1. Similarly, "cat /proc/partitions" shows hda and hda1 with 
hda1 *almost* the same as hda. I think that says there is one partition on 
the hard disk. Period.
     But when running (badly) in Windows XP (Home Edition) as booted from that 
disk, Windows Explorer sees both a C: and a D: drive -- I thought those were 
separate partitions.
     WTF?

-- 
Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/

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