Best partitioning with dualboot?
Hi all,
I've had some problem with my laptop harddisk. It is the partitioning that
is part of the problem.
I've had this sarge install for some years now, with dualboot with
windoze. I "think" the partition was:
/dev/hda1 primary boot windoze xp
/dev/hda4 extended with logical drives
/dev/hda5 logical another fat32 partition
/dev/hda6 logical /
/dev/hda7 swap
/dev/hda8 logical /home (the rest of the disk
The problem was after I formated hda1 and reinstalled windoze. After that
it was just like a partition was gone.... / was suddenly hda5....
I was able to get the / and /home partition with dd and tested to restore
the / part, that was OK.
I've tested partition with fsck and got no errors so I dont know what went
wrong this time when reinstalling windoze. Usually I just install it from
the second dos part, start debian with cd and rerun lolo, thats it. No I
was not able to read the disk parts with either fdisk of qparted from
Knoppix.
Anyhow, I deleted the old fat32 part and created a new primary linux
partition, restored the image and rebooted from the new partition, then
made ext3 filesystem with no problem. This is 6 G of total 40.
So, what is the best way to partition the rest this time? Any hints or
tips?
/ernst-magne
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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