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
On Friday 13 January 2006 12:54 pm, Joseph A Gumbosky wrote: previously pointed out, the logical partitions in the extended physical partition start at hda5.
Wouldn't the MBR be its own physical partition? Not at all. The MBR is never included as a separate partition.
If i understand what I'm seeing correctly, I only have two Physical partitions. Partition Magic shpu;ld give me the option of creating either another physical partition of a logical one. If I create a physical one, wold it be /dev/hda3/? If I create a logical one, it would be /dev/hda7/? If /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 use the entire drive, then you will not be able to create hda3.
And, SuSE will see all this without my needing to renumber things? SuSE will see everything, but you need to tell it what you want it to do. You can run the YaST partitioner and it will tell you what you have physically and what the mount points are, and you can also use it to set up the mount points (so you don't need to edit /etc/fstab). the fsdisk command line utility will also tell you, but both should also tell you the start end end cylinders so you can get a picture of where things are on the disk. And, YaST will also create a FAT32 partition for you. While I have used QTParted to resize NTFS partitions, anytime you perform a resize operation whether Partition Magic or GNU Parted, you do risk damage, so make sure you are backed up. -- Jerry Feldman
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