On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> But on the subsequent fdisk scans (after the corruption of the
> partition table had occurred) I (finally) noticed that the
> extended partitiion was a type f, instead of the proper type 5.
> Type f is listed as 'Win95 Ext'd (LBA)', whereas a type 5 is
> listed simply as 'Extended'.
>
> Anyway, I suspect that having 3 linux partitions inside a Win95
> extended partition probably is what allowed my root partition to
> get corrupted (I figure it was totally overwritten somehow, but
> that's just a guess).
Type f is normal for large disks - type 5 can't span them.
I have numerous Mandrake installations on4 large disks set up by PM5 - all
use Win95 Ext'd extended partitions and all my Linuxen are perfectly
happy.
So that isn't the problem.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
