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RE: Oops, wrong command typed while using fdisk



On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 07:59, Steve Dondley wrote:
> > table, likely because everything is mounted. So, if you just pressed
> > p before you accidently pressed q everything should be okay after a
> > reboot.
> 
> Thanks.  But I hit 'w'---not 'p'---instead of 'q'.
> 
> I'm also a little worried after viewing my /proc/partition file.  It read:
> 
> =============================================
> major minor  #blocks  name
> 
>    3     0   10005408 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
>    3     1    9933808 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
>    3     2          1 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
>    3     5      68008 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
> =============================================
> 
> What the hell is that 1 byte partition in entry #3 doing there?  Should that
> be there?  It sure doesn't look right.

That's an extended partition. partition 5 is a logical partition within
the extended partition. Should be fine.

-Mark

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