After I sent that last one - I noticed that although the cylinder boundaries are the same... the actual "Blocks" count is off by a difference of 32.
I actually don't know if you could just redefine a primary where the extended was - and just mount that original filesystem - something might be off by 32 blocks. I'll research this when I get back home. David Kaiser wrote: > /dev/sda1 * 1 37435 300696606 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 37436 38913 11872035 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 37436 38913 11872003+ 82 Linux swap > > On my drive, I have a single primary volume, and an extended swap > partition. Look at the starting & ending cylinders of both the extended > (/dev/sda2) and the swap partition (/dev/sda5) - they are the same > boundaries. > > So - theoretically speaking - there is a filesystem that exists from > cylinder 37436 to cylinder 38913. If you were to delete the partition _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
