On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:36:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-> On 30 May, Civileme wrote:
-> >
-> > There is another problem associated with this....
-> >
->
-> Hmmm... looks like it was never created...
->
-> > Where is your swap partition located physically on the disk?
-> >
->
-> This is my partition table:
->
-> Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1299 cylinders Units = cylinders of
-> 15120 * 512 bytes
->
-> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
-> /dev/hda1 1 277 2094088+ 6 FAT16
-> /dev/hda2 278 556 2109240 5 Extended
-> /dev/hda3 * 557 563 52920 83 Linux
-> /dev/hda4 564 1268 5329800 83 Linux
-> /dev/hda5 278 556 2109208+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
->
-> I'm not sure what the deal is with partition 5. When I try to change it to
-> type swap with diskdrake, I get an error sayin thast the partion table is
-> full. So how do I get around that? Looks like I have no swap. I'm thinking:
->
-> 1- there's a way to activate and make hda5 be a swap partition, which some
-> kind soul will tell me about.
->
-> 2- I can't do it like this and I have to repartition the disk. Ugh!
->
-> 3- I can't do it like this and I can merge hda5 back into hda4 and use a
-> swap file.
->
-> 4- other?
Other, your partition table is royally clobbered.
hda1-4 should be either primary or extended partitions. Logical partitions
should be hda5 and up. Notice the cylinders of hda5: it occupies the same
space on the drive as hda2. You have a primary partition, hda1, and two
extended partitions that overlap, then two more primary partitions. One of
the extended partitions is not numbered correctly and should not even
exist.
You should immediately abandon and never use again whatever program you
used to partition this drive.
Here is what I have on a similar hard drive:
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1022 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 9 18112+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 10 1022 2042208 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 10 368 723712+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda6 369 727 723712+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda7 728 858 264064+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda8 859 989 264064+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda9 990 1022 66496+ 82 Linux swap
Check the cylinders for the various partitions and you will see that the
logical partitions hda5-hda9 all fit within the extended partition hda2,
which is as it should be. I partitioned this drive manually with Linux'
fdisk, and it enforces the partition numbers for logical and extended and
primary partitions.
Here are the relevant portions of the matching /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda8 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda5 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda9 swap swap defaults 0 0
Given that, I would delete all your existing partitions except the DOS
one, and start over. Try something like:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 277 2094088+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 278 1268 ??????? 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 * 557 563 52920 82 Linux native
/dev/hda6 564 ??? size to suit 83 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 ??? 1268 ?????? 82 Linux native
You could probably make hda5 smaller; I usually use about 16 MB for my
/boot partitions.
Then you get to re-install Linux.
Ideally, do a total backup before you do this so you can restore
afterwards. Short of that, back up /home, /root and /etc, so you can
restore those when you are done, and have most of your setup.
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