Partition Magic Chokes on my Partitions
Alexander Dalloz
alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Thu Jun 17 16:21:58 UTC 2004
Am Do, den 17.06.2004 schrieb Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic -
Java System Software - Sun Microsystems um 17:52:
> Here's the problem: I have a triple boot system on this laptop - Win XP
> Pro, Fedora Core 2, and Sun's Java Desktop System (SuSE based). Here's
> the output of the fdisk -l command:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 3335 26785048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> Windows XP, NTFS
> /dev/hda2 3335 4864 12285000 f W95 Ext'd
> (LBA) Extended, containing hda5,6,7,8
> /dev/hda5 3335 4100 6146248+ 83 Linux
> Fedora Core 2 / ext3
> /dev/hda6 4100 4228 1028128+ 82 Linux swap
> Fedora Core 2 swap
> /dev/hda7 * 4228 4789 4505728+ 83 Linux
> Sun JDS / reiserfs
> /dev/hda8 4789 4864 604768+ 82 Linux swap
> Sun JDS swap
The partitions start on the same block with which the previous partition
ends?
> What could the Linux install programs have done to the partition table
> that offends Partition Magic?
Such behavious is well known. I don't recommend using Partition Magic
when using a Linux partition tool too. PQMagic has often other opinions
about the structure of the partitions / partition table.
> /POL
Alexander
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