Re: Disk Corruption

["Jonathan Brandmeyer" <jbrandmeyer@earthlink.net>]

The drive is 60GB.  You are saying that the extended partition should
consume all of the space that may be parceled out as logical partitions,
Right?  I am going to try it and see.

Thanks,
Jonathan

----- Original Message -----
From: <ajlewis2@intac.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: Disk Corruption


> Quoted -------------
> Here is the information from fdisk -l
> device      boot  Start   End        Blocks          ID    System
> /dev/hda1    *    1        2434    19551073+     7    HPFS/NTFS
>
> /dev/hdb1    *    1            62        497983+   83    Linux
> /dev/hdb2        63            86        996030      82   Linux swap
> /dev/hdb3      187        3921    30001387+    83   Linux
> /dev/hdb4    3922        4164      1951897+      5   Extended
> /dev/hdb5    3922        4164      1951866      83   Linux
>
> ---------------
>
> Early on you said you had 27Gb free.  Your extended partition is only 2Gb.
> Before you go any further, I think it would be good to use fdisk to delete
> /dev/hdb5 and /dev/hdb4.  Remake /dev/hdb4 as extended to use the
remainder of
> the drive.  Then make /dev/hdb5 again and reboot to see if it works.
>
> If you don't show more than 2 Gb for the extended, then something may be
wrong
> that is not showing your entire drive.  How big is that drive?
>
> As it is, this is showing that the logical partition is using the whole
> extended - 2 Gb worth.
>
> Anita
>