Re: Partition confusion
At 08:19 AM 12/16/1998 -0500, Jeff Miller wrote:
>Hello,
>
>My drive 0 (hda) has three partitions. The first two are FAT32 Windoze and
>I have wiped, removed, and re-created the third with cfdisk. I selected
>'Logical' as the type, through cfdisk, and it was assigned a Type of 83
>(Linux). I can mount it and everything seems to be ok. My problem is this:
> I want to copy everything from my Linux drive (hdc) /usr directory to this
>new partition but when I do 'cp -r * /newpartition' I get error messages
>that report the drive type as UMSDOS. The files seem to copy, but it
>doesn't appear that I have the correct format on that partition. Is any of
>this making sense? My goal is to mount that partition as /usr to make use
>of the extra space, but I don't think I'm doing something right. Do I have
>to do something beside setup a partition with cfdisk?
>
>Thanks In Advance
>
>Jeff Miller
Let me preface this by saying I don't know what I'm talking about, but I
think I choose "Primary" instead of "Logical" when partitioning a drive.
I'm not real sure what each of these means, but I'm under the impression
that Logical is somehow dependent on the primary partition.
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