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Jerry Feldman a écrit :
> On Friday 13 January 2006 12:54 pm, Joseph A Gumbosky wrote:
>   
> > Well, I verified the numbering of my HD.  It's as follows:
> >
> > /dev/hda/        55.8G        Toshiba MK5021GAS
> >
> > /dev/hda1/      46.1GB      HPFS/NTFS           /windows/C
> >
> > /dev/hda2/         9.7G        EXTENDED
> >
> > /dev/hda5/        509.8M    Linux swap            swap
> >
> > /dev/hda6/        9.2G        Linux native               /
> >
> >
> >
> > Now I'm really confused.   I seem to be missing /dev/hda3/  and
> > /dev/hda4/.    When I installed, I installed Xp first, then installed
> > SuSE using defaults except for the size of the partition.  So, SuSE sees
> > this as a combination of two physical volumes with the Linux physical
> > partitino divided into to logical volumes?
> >     
> You will only have an hda3 and hda4 if you actually created them. As 
> previously pointed out, the logical partitions in the extended physical 
> partition start at hda5. 
>
>   
Hello,
I'm surprised with such a partition table, usually primary partitions 
are called
hda1, hda2 ..., the extended partition is always called hda4 by Unix or 
Linux
and logical partitions begin at hda5.
Don't try to resize a linux partition with partition magic, it won't 
work even for ext2/3
partitions and SuSE 10. You can use instead "Partition Manager" from 
Paragon.

I use to write occasionnaly to linux partitions from windows with "Mount 
everything"
from Paragon, and to write to NTFS partitions from Linux with "NTFS for 
Linux" from
Paragon. It works well even with the lasts kernels. But when I've to 
write often - for
instance for sharing my thunderbird mailbox - I use a FAT32 partition.

Good luck.

Michel.