From: Emmanuel Stone (eman at domain eircom.net)
Date: Mon 03 Jul 2000 - 01:10:16 IST
Niall O Broin wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 11:59:47PM +0100, Emmanuel Stone wrote:
>
> > In case it's any help here is the output of gpart.linux
> > most of it meaningless to me
>
> OK - the output from gpart is helpful (though still post the output from
> fdisk as asked before) but confusing. You appear to have a primary partition
> of 2039M and an extended partition immediately after it of 6118M, though
> gpart also sees a further possible extended partition at 8158M. As you can
> only have 1 extended partition, gpart is wrong there but that's quite
> possible - gpart is guessing. How big is your harddisk and what exactly do
> you want to do with it ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Niall
hard drive is ~= 10 gigs
I want to keep as much of it as is possible. ie linux partition in tact,
c:, and another partition which was my secondary on windows and i think
erm hda7 but that's a guess.
basically what i think should be there is, a primary partition with
windows stuff, an extended partition (not sure if that's right name
logical seems familiar too) with a fat and an ext2 partition, there was
also some free space floating around which was later 'fat'ted which i
think may be causing problems. i suspect that the free space was in
front of the other two (if that makes no sense ignore it i said it
because the 'empty' partitions under windows were before my old seconday
partition) i hope i'm still making sense. It's getting late and i'm
getting more and more disheartened, anyway here is the output of fdisk
Command (m for help): Command (m for help):
Disk /dev/hda1: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1247 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1p1 ? 105945 207378 814758329+ 74 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(366, 104, 37) should be (366, 254, 63)
/dev/hda1p2 ? 82801 116350 269488144 65 Novell Netware 386
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(10, 121, 13) should be (10, 254, 63)
/dev/hda1p3 ? 33551 120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(324, 77, 19) should be (324, 254, 63)
/dev/hda1p4 ? 243332 243336 32669+ bb Unknown
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(96, 0, 7) should be (96, 254, 63)
Command (m for help):
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