I'm real confused in reading these messages. Here is my fdisk output: bash# fdisk Using /dev/hda as default device!
Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 260 524128+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda2 261 261 1023 1538208 5 Extended /dev/hda3 729 729 748 40320 83 Linux native /dev/hda4 749 749 768 40320 82 Linux swap /dev/hda5 261 261 387 256000+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda6 388 388 728 687424+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda7 769 769 870 205600+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda8 871 871 946 153184+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda9 947 947 1023 155200+ 83 Linux native Note partion 2 is an extended partion and I've got 7 logical partitions in it. Only one primary partition. At home I've got about 3 primary partitions and 6 logical on a single disk. The only thing I can recall being important is "use dos fdisk to generate dos partitions and Linux fdisk to generate Linux partitions". I saw that suggestion somewhere and it seems to be accurate. I've never had a problem running Linux on a combination of logical and primary partitions and I've had Linux coexisting with DOS since 0.12. The only problem I've ever had was with DRDOS 6 when it used to scramble the partition table and reorder it. That would cause problems like moving your /dev/hda3 partition to /dev/hda4 or something similar. It was easy to fix by editing the /etc/fstab file, however, but it did give me a bit of a sinking feeling until I figured it out. I stopped using DRDOS fdisk after that. Jim. --------- Received message begins Here --------- > > hello again, I hope I understand you correctly you want to take a 100 megs > of your win95 partition and use it with /home to make a grand total of 400 > megs? or did you want to take my first suggestion and add an additional > partition of 100megs as /home? If you can do that but I would not > recommend that you are getting into ligical partitions and they can run > into problems. linux only recognizes 4 primary partitions. your stuck if > you want more. if you want to take 100megs off your win95 partition you > will need something like partition magic to repartition your drive with > out losing any of your data. Hope this helps. > Paul > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Lynch, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
