Understanding fdisk -l

Hello again,

After installing Suse 10 on a old windows machine. I thought I had successfully commandeered the entire hard disk for SUSE use.

I didn't want windows on that machine anymore and wanted to devote the entire hard disk to Suse.

Firstly I re-formatted the entire hard disk (via windows by using the original XP CD recovery options)

I then went through the Suse 10 installation process by following the simple instructions as they were presented to me by the Suse installation DVD.

I definitely saw, during the partitioning process, that the windows partition was to be deleted.

However, when I issue the command 'fdisk -l' (output at end of post) I appear to have a W95 Ext'd partition.

What does this really mean ?
Have I got a windows partition or not ?
If so, how much space is this wasting ?
What should I do ?
Why are the partitions described as 'sda , sdb' etc when they are from an IDE drive, I thought IDE partitions were shown as 'hda', 'hdb' etc ?

Merry Christmas and Thanks again for your help.

FAB - Tracyisland

:/ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 30.7 GB, 30736613376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3736 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1caa1ca9

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1252 3736 19960762+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1252 1336 682731 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 1337 2314 7855753+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 2315 3736 11422183+ 83 Linux

Hi,

I'll have to look up the W95 thing...

sda instead of hda, is because Suse is using the SATA drivers to interface with IDE drives, hence they look like sda. This is not a problem, and it works fine