Hi Masquared, Matthew, Jay and others, Thanks for your advice. I don't understand how the extended partion coming in. The hard drive was previously used solely to run RH8.0. I made a clean installation of RH9 from its CDs using its GUI partition program to create 4 partitions for; /boot /swap /root /home no requesting for extended partitiion. After installation the box was not running very stable something missing on bottom bar, KStart menu, etc. I continued using it waiting for RH10. Until recently the box was heavily attacked by Swen/GiFe, the bouncing worms. I built spam filter on 'thunderbird', the email software, to catch most of them. Until recently the box went collapsed. Now I am prepared to make another clean installation of RH9.0 on this box but I need to reserve 'home' in particular, the 'Thunderbird' mail box /home/user/.thunderbird/default/zoe216nc.slt/Mail I already create its backup as tarball and backup of other data also as tarball as well. I did not creat 'home' backup because I worry there are problems. I tried to find out the designation of /dev/hde4 and /dev/hde5 but forget the correct command, whether 'lab /dev/hdeX' or 'label /dev/hdeX showing that it is home/root/boot/ etc. Could you please shed me some light. Thanks B.R. Stephen å ä, 2003-12-05 02:03, Msquared åéï > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:50:32AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hde1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > > /dev/hde2 14 78 522112+ 82 Linux swap > > /dev/hde3 79 736 5285385 83 Linux > > /dev/hde4 737 1245 4088542+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) > > /dev/hde5 737 1245 4088511 83 Linux > > > > According to my recollection I only created 4 partitions > > The primary partition table on the disk can only contain four partitions. > If you want more than that, you must create one of those partitions as a > sort of partition container. The partition container is a partition that > contains more partitions (secondary partitions). > > A simple rule of thumb is that if you make more than 3 partitions, the > additional ones should be secondary partitions. Having four partitions > under that rule of thumb is an odd case, since obviously 4 partitions fits > nicely into the four primary partitions. :-) *shrug* One of those > things... > > Something odd: if you create one primary partition and one secondary > partition, you'll probably end up with hda1 and hda5, since hda4 will be > the partition used to create the secondary partition container. I don't > know if partition 4 (hda4) is the only one that can be a secondary > partition container, or if that's just by convention. > > I hope that clears up the mystery for you. > > Regards, Msquared... > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
