http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5942
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-25-09 14:00 ------- Sure -- hda5, hda11 and hda12 were created by the Mandrake installer, while splitting hda2. hda5 is the one which shifted the old 5..9 up to 6..10. On hda1, there's RedHat 8.0; hda2 got automounted as /mnt/win_d. root# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40037760000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4867 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 101 811251 83 Linux /dev/hda2 102 735 5092605 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda4 736 4867 33190290 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 736 1165 3453943+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1503 1948 3582463+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 1949 2037 714861 6 FAT16 /dev/hda8 2038 2126 714861 83 Linux /dev/hda9 2127 2151 200781 82 Linux swap /dev/hda10 2152 4867 21816238+ 83 Linux /dev/hda11 1166 1228 506016 82 Linux swap /dev/hda12 1229 1502 2200873+ 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: I just installed MDK 9.2-rc2 on a system with more Linux and Windows partitions on it. I used the "split my Windows partition" option to split hda2 among Windows and MDK. There was no hda3, but hda4 was extended and had several more partitions. Diskdrake correctly allocated new partitions and even worked close-to-intuitive, but it did manage to renumber partitions 5 and up, so that other installations got frustrated. I suppose it was the intention to avoid that, having seen that the new partitions are allocated high-end numbers (hda11, hda12).
