Hi Badri,
Martin is absolutely right: don't do anything but use the "p" command
under fdisk, then just "q" to quit. Don't do any changes to your
partitions, if you still want to use the data on them.
So, just use fdisk to *test whether* your partitions are recognized by
your Linux. You may use the "m" command to find out about the things
fdisk can do for you. But I would be really careful with these very
powerful things.
Cheers,
Peter
Martin Borho wrote:
If you re-partition using fdisk you will lose everything on the drive
including your windows OS
----- Original Message -----
From: "venkatasubramaniam" <ayya vsnl net>
To: <rhn-users redhat com>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 2:55 AM
Subject: RE: [rhn-users] RE: doubt in linux
jonathan,peter
i have a doubt.recently,i had installed partition magic in my
system.instead of uninstalling it, i maid a mistake and deleted the boot
magic folders. i was faced with a serious problem. i was unable to
reinstall
boot magic . it was a mess. my friend recommended fdisk.it worked and boot
magic didn't cause any problem during booting.it remained though. now, can
u
tell me exactly what this fdisk does?if i apply it to my win partition ,
will anything happen to my data and my win os?can u also tell me the exact
procedure?
thanks,
badri.
-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-admin redhat com [mailto:rhn-users-admin redhat com]On
Behalf Of jonathan jefferies
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 10:20 PM
To: rhn-users redhat com
Subject: [rhn-users] RE: doubt in linux
venkatasubramaniam,
I agree with Peter about using fdisk to confirm that your partitions
are where and what you think they are. But a caveat, my experience
and comments I've received say to it is much better to actually
create DOS/VFAT file systems using MicroSoft's software. Makes
sure there are no problems for MS. Of course linux is continually
improving and the latest versions of mkfs.msdos && mkfs.vfat may
be acceptable.
If the Dos partitions(c: e: ??) are already created and booting
then just use fdisk to confirm that all the parameters are correct.
An aside: linux's fdisk can create/remove and modify MS partitions,
MS's fdisk cannot create/remove or modify linux partitions.
J.
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