Re: fdisk, parted, problems and questions.

2006-05-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:05:09PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Monday 22 May 2006 21:24, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:08:43PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > > Actually, fixing the order in fdisk will exchange what is now /dev/hdc1 > > > (linux) and /dev/hdc2 (extended). Ever

Re: fdisk, parted, problems and questions.

2006-05-23 Thread David Baron
On Monday 22 May 2006 21:24, Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:08:43PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > On Monday 22 May 2006 17:32, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > The first entry in the table might be your Linux root, but the first > > > partition on the drive is your FAT. So if you want yo

Re: fdisk, parted, problems and questions.

2006-05-22 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:08:43PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Monday 22 May 2006 17:32, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > The first entry in the table might be your Linux root, but the first > > partition on the drive is your FAT. So if you want your partition table > > to be in disk order, you either ha

Re: fdisk, parted, problems and questions.

2006-05-22 Thread George Hein
I am a bit crazy about partitions and keep changing them, about twice a year, my wife won't generally let me near her PC. I saw somewhere that data at end/center of disk has slower I/O so I put hdx4 there with a bootable Linux-fix-RIP partition containing all backup data, I keep this to about

Re: fdisk, parted, problems and questions.

2006-05-22 Thread David Baron
On Monday 22 May 2006 17:32, Digby Tarvin wrote: > The first entry in the table might be your Linux root, but the first > partition on the drive is your FAT. So if you want your partition table > to be in disk order, you either have to change the partition table to > match what you actually have, o

Re: fdisk, parted, problems and questions.

2006-05-22 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:54:36PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > Two common sources of problem I have found are partition tables that > > are not in the same order in the table as the partitions are on disk, > > and the location and size of the extended partition in the primary > > partition table

Re: fdisk, parted, problems and questions.

2006-05-22 Thread David Baron
On Monday 22 May 2006 13:26, Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 09:45:02PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > This is the "print" from fdisk from my linux disk: > > > > Disk /dev/hdc: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes > > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 79656 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 51

Re: fdisk, parted, problems and questions.

2006-05-22 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 09:45:02PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > This is the "print" from fdisk from my linux disk: > > Disk /dev/hdc: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 79656 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > >Device Boot Start End

fdisk, parted, problems and questions.

2006-05-20 Thread David Baron
This is the "print" from fdisk from my linux disk: Disk /dev/hdc: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 79656 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 65520 77600 6088635