Re: Norton Utilities Disk Doctor and Linux partition

["M. Neidorff" <neidorff bellatlantic net>]

At 09:42 PM 09/30/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Off-topic questions related to Linux partitioning and installation
>
>1.  Windows 98 Norton Utilities
>
>A diagnostic check with Win98 version of Norton Utilities Disk Doctor (NUDD) 
>identifies RH6 Linux partition as abnormal.
>
>My Linux disk has a primary DOS partition of 100 MB and 
>on remainder of disk are Linux native partitions.  Bootloader is
>on first Linux partition and I boot Linux from custom startup disk.
>
>NUDD asks if I want to "fix" the extended (Linux) partition table.
>I answer "No."  Would "Yes" damage the Linux partitions?

Yes, it will make it look like a DOS partition.  Definitely not what you
want.  (I had RH 5.1 on an external drive and an older version of NU
"fixed" the drive for me.  I could never boot linux after that.  It became
a non-issue since I got a new drive after that, but it left a bad taste in
my mouth.)


Mark
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