Chuck MATTSEN wrote:
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Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: <SNIP>
Ok - the section of your drive from 1917 to 3184 is not "owned" by any partition. You have two choices here. You can create a primary partition out of it, or you can create a second extended partition out of it.| | Before you start changing things, would you send the output of "fdisk -l | /dev/hda" so we can see how things are now. I don't know if your free | space is part of your extended partition, or if it is not claimed by any | partition. Space can be claimed by an extended partition, but not used | by a logical partition, or not claimed by any partition. It makes a | difference on what you can do with it.
Gladly ... thanks (I /almost/ followed part of that LOL):
[EMAIL PROTECTED] chuck]# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
~ Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1916 15390238+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 3185 4864 13494600 5 Extended /dev/hda5 3185 3949 6143728+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 3949 4013 511528+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 4013 4864 6839248+ 83 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] chuck]#
If you create a primary partition out if it, the numbers of the Linux partitions will not change. You will just add /dev/hda3. But I am not sure how XP will deal with it. I think it will be fine with it. You have probably have to create the partition in Linux, but I would try using fdisk in Windows, and see if it will let you create a FAT32 primary partition. Windows is always happier if you use its tools to create things. If it wants to create an extended partition, and a logical drive, you may have problems booting Linux after that, until you edit /etc/fstab. I do not know what will happen with the logical partition numbers, but I suspect they will change.
You can also create the primary partition in Linux, change the type to FAT32, and then format it in Windows. This is usually better then trying to format it in Linux. (It can be done, but Windows isn't always happy about it.) I use fdisk or cfdisk (does Mandrake include cfdisk?) for this. You can try doing it in harddrake, or I can give you step by step directions later, when I am back on my Linux box. If I do it off the top of my head, I will forget something.
Mikkel
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