On 24-Jul-99 Axalon wrote:
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> On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
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>> On 24-Jul-99 Axalon wrote:
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>> > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
>> >> On the subject of cfdisk and fdisk, does anyone know why cfdisk would
>> >> give
>> >> me
>> >> this message:
>> >>
>> >> FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6:
>> >> Press any key to exit cfdisk
>> >>
>> >> and refuse to work, while fdisk and disk druid work just fine with no
>> >> such
>> >> errors?
>> >>
>> >> hda6 (I assume that's what's referred to by 'logical partition 6') is my
>> >> swap
>> >> partition, and I don't know what would be wrong with it. I first got
>> >> that
>> >> message when I was playing around with installing Slackware (at least
>> >> that
>> >> forced me into acquainting myself with fdisk), so I thought it might have
>> >> just
>> >> been Slackware, but cfdisk gives me the same thing in Mandrake.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -Tom
>> >>
>> >
>> > whats fdisk -l say, also the table printout from fdisk in expert mode.
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>> fdisk -l says:
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>> [root : ~]# fdisk -l
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>> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 788 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
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>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/hda1 * 1 265 2128581 b Win95 FAT32
>> /dev/hda2 266 788 4200997+ 5 Extended
>> /dev/hda5 649 776 1028128+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/hda6 777 788 96358+ 82 Linux swap
>> /dev/hda7 266 457 1542177 83 Linux
>> /dev/hda8 458 648 1534176 83 Linux
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>> Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 973 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
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>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/hdb1 * 1 973 1961536+ 83 Linux
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>> And the table printout from fdisk:
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>> Command (m for help): p
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> x, then p. ;) these are same printout, and i don't seee anything blatently
> wrong offhand, somethings i wouldn't do but nothing wrong
>
Sorry, I didn't notice the x option :), here you go:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 788 cylinders
Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
1 80 1 1 0 254 63 264 63 4257162 0b
2 00 0 1 265 254 63 787 4257225 8401995 05
3 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
5 00 1 1 648 254 63 775 6152958 2056257 83
6 00 1 1 776 254 63 787 63 192717 82
7 00 2 1 265 254 63 456 63 3084354 83
8 00 1 1 457 254 63 647 63 3068352 83
Quick question while on this subject... is it normal to have that 'Extended'
partition with all of my Linux partitions apparently grouped inside it? I
don't see anything like that when partitioning in Disk Druid and have been
wondering about it.
-Tom
