On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:52 PM, JB <jb.123abc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tom H <tomh0665 <at> gmail.com> writes: >> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:25 PM, JB <jb.123abc <at> yahoo.com> wrote: >> > JB <jb.123abc <at> yahoo.com> writes: >> > >> > # fdisk -l >> > ... >> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> > /dev/sda1 * 1 4462 35840983+ 7 HPFS/NTFS >> > /dev/sda2 4463 4717 2048287+ e W95 FAT16 (LBA) >> > /dev/sda3 4718 12162 59793409 5 Extended >> > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. >> > /dev/sda5 4718 5961 9989120 83 Linux >> > /dev/sda6 5962 8094 17133291 83 Linux >> > /dev/sda7 11919 12162 1951744 82 Linux swap/Solaris >> > /dev/sda8 8095 11918 30716248+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) >> > >> sda3 can be an extended partition. > > Tom, > I was not sure about it ... I thought that might confuse the partition table > layout logic. I wanted to make it "by the book" as much as possible. > OK. Let's assume that your are right. That would not necessitate touching > sda2 with W95 FAT16. > > Paul, you are following the thread, are you :-) . > > Tom, > now there is a problem with Extended partition ending on 12162 boundary, which > is end of sda7, and not sda8 as it should be. > What do you think can we do to fold sda8 into that Extended partition without > remaking the Extended partition entirely ? > Perhaps we can fool it (or it is the right thing to do ...) by saving sda8 > (W95 FAT32) contents somewhere (like I suggested previously for sda2) and > delete sda8. Would that fix the table (at least so it would become workable). > After that we could try a trick again by incorporating that free space into > sda7 so that allignments would be correct once again. > What do you think ? As a concrete example, Debian (and therefore Ubuntu), in its default set up, mounts / on sda1 and swap on sda5 (with sda2 as an extended partition) so having sda3 rather than sda4 as an extended partition isn't a problem. The sda7/sda8 situation is strange but I have seen it before and don't think that it is a problem. I would want to change it because I would rather have an fdisk output that looks more "normal"/"logical" but it wouldn't be a technical decision. The problem might be that there is no free space but the installed must have some kind of warning for that (surely!). -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
