>>>and partitions etc cannot be created on a FD???
A partn is for efficient managment of a big file system IMHO.
But for a FD 1.44 megs whatever for ??
To glean any info, use sfdisk to display all partitions.....
Your Primary partns will be listed, as well as a fake partn, which
will hold info about all the extended partns.
Bye
Kaushik
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From: Narain CR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, July 07, 2000 5:01 PM
>I realised soon after I had replied that U were using the floppy...
>Seriously, I didn't think it might work as fdisk itself stands for "fixed
>disk" and partitions etc cannot be created on a FD... Even cfdisk didn't
>work - exiting with "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition"...But tried fdisk
>and accieved the same results as U... I'll be trying the other stuff in
>the near future (after buying a new HDD), and I'll post my findings to the
>list...
>
>So far so good then, we can use the dos fdisk to create a new extended
>partition and thats how it stays if we want to have 2 extended partitions
>on our disk... btw any idea what the difference could be between these
>three different kinds of extended partitions???
>On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Dwivedi Ajay kumar wrote:
>
> I did not test the fdisk on my hdd(doesn;t wanna take chance :) but
>took a floppy and /sbin/fdisk /dev/fd0.
>
> No it doesn;t work. the fdisk refuses to convert primary to
>extended whatever be its type 5,85 or f (B if FAT32 and not extended)
>
> However I was successful in converting the DOS extended (ID 5) to
>Linux Extended (ID 85).
>
> sure. But I can;t mount the floppy partitions as there are no
>devices like /dev/fd0p1 etc.. And my HDD is compltely utilised having
>a single primary root and a single extended partition and hence I can't
>fiddle with it.
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