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Re: Phantom partition, anyone?



On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 16:31, Gabriel Farrell wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:22:29PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> > hda3 CONTAINS hda5 and hda6.  fdisk is showing the detailed
> > breakdown.  cfdisk hides the breakdown and hides hda3 along
> > with it.  cfdisk allows you to create partitions without
> > worrying about the limit of four partitions.  cfdisk handles
> > the housekeeping chores related to primary and extended
> > partitions for you.
> 
> Thanks, that helps to clear things up, but why the fsck hiccup (or
> worse?) on bootup?  

Do you have hda3 in your fstab?  (You should not.)

--Mike Bird



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