Disk Partitions in XENIX and DOS

[Stephen Wong]

In article <183 at nat-3.UUCP>, root at nat-3.UUCP (nat-3 System Administrator) writes...
>	I am using a system that has an 8 Mb MS-DOS 4.0 partition and
>a 33 Mb XENIX-386 2.3.2 partition on an ST-251-1 disk drive.  DOS's
>FDISK shows partition 1 being a DOS partition and partition 2 being
>a XENIX partition.  Fine.  But XENIX's fdisk and Ontrack's Disk
>Manager report that the XENIX partition is on partition 4.  What is
>going on?

Your situation is normal.  It is just a matter of how to count partitions in
the partition tables.  Xenix and DOS (perhaps Disk Manager counts agree with
DOS) use different method (one counting upward and other counting downward) to
count.  You may treat this just as one of the controversy of DOS and Xenix.

Regards,
Stephen.

stephen at hantsq.dec.com