Re: Disk Corruption (was: Disk formatting)

[Tom Pfeifer <tplists@optonline.net>]

Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:

> dmesg shows this interesting entry:
> Partition check:
>   hda: hda1
>   hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 <hdb5>
> 
> and the view in cfdisk is:
> Size: 60040544256 bytes
>   hdb1    Boot    Primary    Linux ext2    509.97
>   hdb2                Primary    Linux swap    1019.94
>   hdb3                Primary    Linux ext2    30721.43
>   hdb5                Logical    Linux            1998.75
>                           Logical    Free Space    25786.26
> 
> What if hdb4 is actually a primary partition that I cannot see?  This would
> violate the partitioning rules, wouldn't it?


That's just the result of the way cfdisk deals with extended partitions.
It doesn't show them in the main partition listing for some unknown
reason, but if you use the [ Print ] option, hdb4 will show up there as
partition # 4.

Tom