Re: partition problem
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 00:19, William Xu wrote:
> GONG Jie <neo@mamiyami.com> writes:
> > On Tuesday 08 November 2005 21:19, William Xu wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >> I have an 80G removable hard disk, which i divided into 40G xfs + 40G
> >> vfat partitions. (In detail, cfdisk first, then mkfs.xfs and mkfs.vfat
> >> for each partition.)
> >> on linux, i could mount both partitions - sda1, sda5 successfully. But
> >> on windows (i wish it could access the 40G vfat partition), it can't
> >> recognize the disk. What's wrong here?
> >
> > I think the problem is the partition type of the extended partition. I
> > guess you create a extended partition with type 5 (Extended) or 85
> > (Linux extended). But for Windows, you should create a extended
> > partition with type f (Win95 Extended LBA).
>
> Hmm, you may be right. I didn't touch that. So its partition type is
> still the default value - Linux(82)
>
> But i have data on sda5 already. Can i change the file system type(i
> guess partition type refers to primary/logical, right?), i.e., change
> from linux to win95 Extended LBA, without damaging the data?
I think there is no way to keep the data while you are going to change the
partition type and re-format it. You may backup the data first.
>
> > Change your sda2 partition type to f. (I guess sda2 is your extended
> > partition) And re-created sda5, then re-format sda5 with vfat may helps
> > you solve this problem.
>
> There's nothing on sda2. I don't know why the removable hard disk skips
> sda2, sda3 and sda4. Actually, i'm confused with `mac-fdisk -l's
> output. Can't figure out which is the extended partition.
The partition map of PC harddisk are different from the Mac one. So do NOT
use mac-fdisk, since you expect it can be worked on Windows. Use pmac-fdisk
instead.
>
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Regards,
GONG Jie
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