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Re: 2.6.8 on AlphaStation 200



On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:35:24AM +0300, Jaakko Linnosaari wrote:
> Joakim Roubert wrote:
> >octavia:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda

> >Disk /dev/sda: 67 heads, 62 sectors, 1011 cylinders
> >Units = cylinders of 4154 * 512 bytes

> >3 partitions:
> >#       start       end      size     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
> >  a:        2         5         4       ext2
> >  b:        6        89        84       swap
> >  c:       90      1011       922       ext2

> c-partition has traditionally been reserved for other purposes.
> You might want to try changing it to:

> #       start       end      size     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:        2         5         4       ext2
>   b:        6        89        84       swap
>   c:        1      1011      1011     unused        0     0
>   d:       90      1011       922       ext2

> and don't forget to update your /etc/fstab (sda3 -> sda4).

This is only relevant on legacy Unix systems.  On GNU/Linux, there are
some tools now (parted, for one) that don't cope well with full-disk
slices that overlap other partitions.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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