hmmm.....
i just did a large HD with win98 / mandrake, and norton disk doctor thinks i have a
partition problem.... tho both OSs work fine, so i believe it just can't recognize
the linux partition. if eveything is working fine for you, maybe it's ok??? i'm not
really sure. i suppose this doesn't help much -- but maybe you can gather something
from it.
Adrian Smith
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>>> Seth Falcon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7:27:14 AM 9/29/00 >>>
During install of LM 7.1 I shrunk my single win98 partition, added a
second FAT32 partition and gave the remaining space on my 21GB disk to
linux split up as /, swap, /home.
Both OS's load and appear to work.
>From both win98 and linux the size of C:\ or /dev/hda1 a.k.a. /mnt/windows
is reported as 21GB with 15GB free.
I got these values from win98 using properties in explorer and from linux
using "df"
On the other hand, the partitions seem to be there: using fdisk in linux
and in DOS shows that the first partition is 8GB which is what it should
be.
fdisk does report that "Partition 1 does not end on a cylinder boundary:
phys (1019, 219, 31) should be (1019, 254, 63)"
What is going on, why does linux and win98 report the wrong info for C:\
and should I worry that win98 will corrupt my linux partitions?
NOTE: Initially, win98 couldn't see the new FAT32 partition but I
corrected this by changing the system id of the 2nd partition from linux
extended to dos extended as suggested on the Mandrake web site. This
didn't affect how the size of C:\ is reported.
Thanks.
