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Re: partitions

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 15:14 +0100, Jakub Narojczyk wrote:
> michael napisał(a):
> 
> >I'm not sure if I'm messed up here but all advice welcome: 
> >
> > I
> > used the WinXP setup CD to delete existing WinXP 32Gb partition,  
> > created
> > 2 new 16Gb partitions, then made some spare space at end a new  
> > partition
> > too (it may have been 2 new partitions). WinXP installed okay into one
> >of the partitions (didn't create a
> > filesys on the others).
> >
> > but then it seemed had to change from hda3 to hda6 to boot Debian and
> >then when do gpart/parted it gives a  
> > smaller no.
> > of partitions than the XP setup made and has a couple with same  
> > starting
> > point (byte? cylinder?)....
> >
> >I then deleted the new partitions (leaving WinXP in the new but smaller
> >partition) but still Debian (eg parted) only sees 3 partitions and two
> >of them start in same place.
> >
> >Sorry for lack of details - will write them down and post later today
> >
> >M
> >  
> >
> I'm not sure what is the problem in You're case. Below is my fdisk -l 
> output to one of my discs, mayby it'll help You somehow.
> dev             boot   start      end         Blocks      id   system
> /dev/hda1   *           1        1275    10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2            1276       23834   181205167+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda3           23835       24077     1951897+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda4           24078       24321     1959930   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/hda5            1276        3825    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda6            3826        5100    10241406    b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/hda7            5101        5354     2040223+   6  FAT16
> /dev/hda8            5355       23834   148440568+  83  Linux
> 
> As You can see hda2 and hda5 start in the same "spot" and hda8 ends with 
> the end of hda2. This is qiute normal, as the hda6-8 are the logical 
> volumes of hda2 with is the extendet partition. hda 1,3,4 are primary 
> partitions.
> 
> regards
> Jakub
> 

Jakub, it's useful to be told that the logical/extended may have same
start points (obvious once pointed out?). I'm not sure how to determine
this from the fdisk output (or do the trailing '+' on the blocks mean
something?)

I've not found 'fdisk' for Sarge/stable - is it better in anyway than
parted, gpart?

Thanks, Michael
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