>> >Disk /tmp/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
>> >Units=cylinders of 4032*512 bytes
>> >
>> >Device Boot Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
>> >/tmp/hda1 * 1 1 675 1038208+ 6 DOS 16-bit>=32M
>> >/tmp/hda2 516 516 642 256032 5 Extended
>> >/tmp/hda3 643 643 673 62496 83 Linux native
>> >/tmp/hda4 674 674 689 32256 82 Linux swap
>> >/tmp/hda5 516 516 642 256000+ 6 DOS 16-bit>=32M
>> >
>Oops! I'd rather not rebuild All of the partitions if it is possible. (I
>have >600M stuffs in the first partition hda1). Is it possible to remedy
>the situation by deleting hda3 and hda4? If so, which device in the above
>list considered to be primary partitions? (I thought the hda2 and hda5 are
>the extended and logical partitions). Moreover, what MUST be primary
>partition in Linux? (I guess the root / is one of them).
>If it is necessary, I can delete hda2 and hda5 and rebuilt them.
>From what I can see, you have a 2.1GB disk and you are using over half of it
for DOS. What is really strange is that you have a partition (hda2) inside
of hda1. Actually, you have two and a start of a third under hda1. Those
being hda2, hda3 and hda4. Hda5 is the logical partition of the Extended
hda2.
It appears to me that you can't be using anything other than the DOS
partition.
The minimum partitions for Linux are / and swap. Because the disk is so
small, doing anything other than / and swap will is not worth it.
So, it does indeed look like the DOS partition in hda1 can be saved. Use
fdisk to delete partitions 2, 3 and 4. I've not worked with an extended
partition, so fdisk may require you to delete the logical partion in hda5
first.
Then you can use the "n" command to create a new / in hda2 and a swap in
hda3. Actually, you can put swap in hda2 and make it 64MB and use the
remaining space in hda3 for /.
How does that sound?
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