On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 20:38 +0100, Sebastien LANGE wrote: > > The first few blocks of an ext2 or ext3 filesystem are unused, so > > putting one at the start of the disk doesn't matter - the SILO code and > > the disk label in block 0 of the disk are untouched. > > > > A partition that's part of an MD array will have data written to it from > > its first block, so if it starts on block 0 of the disk then SILO and > > the disk label be overwritten. > > > For me, the first partition is the swap and this partition must start on > block 1 too ? As I understand it - yes. Linux swap doesn't have any meta data thus it just writes over the area you give it - if you include block 0 then it will write over your partition table. Unless swap is the only thing on the disk I'm guessing this isn't what you want. HTH.
Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
