On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:23:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-> On 31 May, Lee Willis wrote:
-> > Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> >
-> >> hda2 is an extended partition, both according to the file system ID and what
-> >> it does: it holds other, logical, partitions within it. hda5 is labeled 7,
-> >> NTFS or HPFS, but it really is an extended partition. I don't know how it
-> >> got created or labled, but it should never have been created, and, having
-> >> been created an extended partition, it should have been IDed as such.
-> >
-> > As far as I can see, and from what I understand it's a logical
-> > partition, and it is perfectly legal!. Logical partitions are IDed as
-> > what they are (In this case NTFS), exactly the same way as primary
-> > partitions are. The very fact that it is "hda5" says that it is logical,
-> > it doesn't need any further IDing!
-> >
->
-> So is the fact that my extended partition appears as a drive to my NT, and
-> that part of that partition is used for linux swap a problem? The way
-> Charles's drive looks like this:
->
-> 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
->
-> Notice that his extended partition has *nothing* in it. All the data for the
-> partition is contained in logical partitions.
No, my extended partition has all the logical partitions in it.
Your extended partition has one logical drive in it, the NTFS logical
partition.
->
-> With my setup, it seems to me like the extended partition is seen by NT as
-> containing data in it.... Actually, I'll try rebooting in NT to see what
-> size the partition has to see if the 240-od MB of swap I allocated are the
-> size of the D drive on NT. If so, that would be my problem right there. I'll
-> have to reconfigure the extended partition on with Partition Magic to fix
-> this. I'll send another message once I've done this.
I suspect that NT sees your FAT partition as C: and the NTFS one as D:
(Unless you've been playiong with NT's disk administrator). In that case,
making either your one extended partition (hda2, if I recall correctly) or
the one logical partition (at hda5, IIRC), a swap partition will eat your
D: drive.
->
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