Ok...
First of all, in order for me to use Partition Magic, which I have on my
windows side and hardly ever use. I'd rather use Linux...anyway, PM won't
do anything with ReiserFS. Thus, in order to use PM I would have to wipe
the drive, start over and make the file system ext2 in order to be able to
use PM. I really don't want to do that. I've spent a lot of time setting
this machine up.
Another real good reason for not using PM is because I've left the windows
world behind because I just plain got sick and tired or using a GUI for
anything and everything. All that was doing was letting something else do
the real work for me and I was learning "how" to fix a problem cause I had
no idea what the program was doing while it was fixing something. Ergo,
one of the biggest reasons I became a full time Linux user. And I happen
to like diskdrake. It's a very powerful tool and used properly can do just
as good a job as PM. And it's free! Not to mention I save the Window
parition with it the other night. Not that I need or windows, but there is
still a great deal of data still being stored on that system.
If I'm going to "fix" this problem then I want to know why it's happening
and how to deal with it without allowing a GUI to do the thinking and work
for me. I like being the one making the decisions whether for good or for
bad. I like choices. Therefore, I really need to know whats going on here
and just how to go about fixing it.
O yeah...and one more thing. Even when I did have the ext2 FS in the
drive PM would bail on me each and every time without fail when I would
start it and it only behaves this way when the Linux partitions are
overlapped. It ain't a doin me much good that-a way. Seems the program
only works for me when there "isn't" a problem on the drive that it was
designed to handle. Darn! can't use it again...
On the other hand...diskdrake doesn't complain, nor crash, nor bail with
an init error that is so non descript that it's error means next to
nothing usable at all to the user. Bah...hum bug! I don't often spend this
much time bashing and bitching about Windows stuff cause this just ain't
the place for it. And neither is falling back to a real dumb program
"hoping" that it's doing the job correctly and fixing the real problem.
All that being said...as I stated before PM is not the answer for this
situation.
Mark
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:57:28 +1100
> From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!
>
> civileme wrote:
>
> > $ su -
> > password:
> > # fdisk /dev/hdx #where x is a or b or whatever your disk is
> >
> > p
> > q
>
> There is an easier and safer way:
>
> fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
> See man fdisk.
>
>
