Re: Partitioning (fwd)
I'm real confused in reading these messages. Here is my fdisk output:
bash# fdisk
Using /dev/hda as default device!
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 260 524128+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 261 261 1023 1538208 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 729 729 748 40320 83 Linux native
/dev/hda4 749 749 768 40320 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda5 261 261 387 256000+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda6 388 388 728 687424+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda7 769 769 870 205600+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda8 871 871 946 153184+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda9 947 947 1023 155200+ 83 Linux native
Note partion 2 is an extended partion and I've got 7 logical partitions
in it. Only one primary partition. At home I've got about 3 primary
partitions and 6 logical on a single disk.
The only thing I can recall being important is "use dos fdisk to generate dos
partitions and Linux fdisk to generate Linux partitions". I saw that
suggestion somewhere and it seems to be accurate.
I've never had a problem running Linux on a combination of logical and
primary partitions and I've had Linux coexisting with DOS since 0.12.
The only problem I've ever had was with DRDOS 6 when it used to scramble
the partition table and reorder it. That would cause problems like moving
your /dev/hda3 partition to /dev/hda4 or something similar. It was easy
to fix by editing the /etc/fstab file, however, but it did give me a bit
of a sinking feeling until I figured it out. I stopped using DRDOS fdisk
after that.
Jim.
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>
> hello again, I hope I understand you correctly you want to take a 100 megs
> of your win95 partition and use it with /home to make a grand total of 400
> megs? or did you want to take my first suggestion and add an additional
> partition of 100megs as /home? If you can do that but I would not
> recommend that you are getting into ligical partitions and they can run
> into problems. linux only recognizes 4 primary partitions. your stuck if
> you want more. if you want to take 100megs off your win95 partition you
> will need something like partition magic to repartition your drive with
> out losing any of your data. Hope this helps.
> Paul
>
>
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Jim Lynch, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO
Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: jwl@sgi.com
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