Re: Disk Corruption (was: Disk formatting)

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Jonathan Brandmeyer said:

> What if hdb4 is actually a primary partition that I cannot see?  This
> would violate the partitioning rules, wouldn't it?

hdb4 should be an extended partition. an extended partition is
required to support logical drives.

using normal fdisk should show more results.

e.g. from my laptop

   hda1               Primary   Linux ext2                          23.23
    hda2              Logical   Linux ReiserFS                     526.42
    hda6              Logical   Linux ext3                         526.42
    hda7              Logical   Linux LVM                        28929.77

  Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1         3     22648+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2             4      3876  29279880    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5             4        71    514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6            72       139    514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7           140      3876  28251688+  8e  Linux LVM

(odd how SuSE made /dev/hda2 a "Win95 Extended" partition, I partitioned
the disk in suse 8's installer for LVM ..)

nate