Re: Need to clean up the hard disk

[Albert DE WINT <adwint pandora be>]

Op zo 01-06-2003, om 21:22 schreef Otto Haliburton:
> I suggest you use fdisk to examine your partitions rather than fstab. 
> Do a fdisk and post that.  That will tell what your actual partitions
> look like.  I don't think one OS will mess with other partitons.  It's
> against the rules.  They will wipe out MBR and put their own(XP) but
> they generally want delete/move other partitions unless they are told.

Thank's Otto, here it is:

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

 Device   Boot    Start       End    Blocks  I d  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      3616  29045488+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2          3617      3744   1028160   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda3          3745      9150  43423695   83  Linux
/dev/hda4          9151     14589  43688767+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5          9151      9163    104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda6          9164     14459  42540088+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7         14460     14589   1044193+  82  Linux swap

> On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 14:05, Albert DE WINT wrote:
> > Hi Mark and Otto,
> > 
> > First I'd like to thank both of you for the outstanding assistance on my
> > "partition" experience!  It was an interesting exercice.
> > 
> > Now that lost I Mandrake, I don't feel like installing it again.
> > Let it be... (John Lennon)
> > 
> > I had a hard time, reinstalling WinXP for my kids, today.
> > I still have to take care about a new MBR to make RH9 boot.
> > (I now use a floppy to boot.)
> > 
> > I noticed WinXP 'rearranged' the partition table.
> > So, HD9 fails to install the swap partition hda4 while booting. 
> > 
> > [root dimension etc]# cat fstab
> > LABEL=/        /              ext3    defaults        1 1
> > LABEL=/boot    /boot          ext3    defaults        1 2
> > none           /dev/pts       devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> > none           /proc          proc    defaults        0 0
> > none           /dev/shm       tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> > /dev/hda4      swap           swap    defaults        0 0
> > /dev/hda7      swap           swap    defaults        0 0
> > /dev/cdrom     /mnt/cdrom     udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> > /dev/cdrom1    /mnt/cdrom1    udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> > /dev/fd0       /mnt/floppy    auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> > [root dimension etc]#
> > 
> > I suppose I can do without swap. 'top' says I don't use it.
> > Besides, I have plenty of DRAM (512MB).
> > 
> > But I would like to 'clean up' that messy disk. Can this be done using
> > some REDHAT tools? PartitionMagic has made me think twice before jumping
> > into another adventure. I'd rather not use it again.
> > 
> > Albert
> 
> 
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