On Sunday 24 February 2002 18:59, Dan Kolb wrote:
> On Sunday 24 Feb 2002 18:43 pm, Matt Williams wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Have you checked the partition types? It's possible that your ex-FAT
> partition is still marked as being a DOS/Windows partition in the partition
> table.
> To check: go into Linux as root, and type "fdisk /dev/hda".
> Type 'p' to show the partition types, and note what's written by the
> 'System' column - the Linux one should be ID 83 (System: Linux). Chances
> are, if Win2k is detecting it, it's marked as some DOS/Windows ID. To
> change it, type 't' to change a partition type; then enter the partition
> number (which you got from printing it via 'p'), enter "83" to mark it as a
> Linux partition (so Windows won't recognise it as drive D:)
Here's the output of p:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1467 cylinders
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1045 8393931 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1046 1467 3389715 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1046 1062 136521 82 Linux Swap
/dev/hda6 1063 1467 3253131 83 Linux
I'm guessing that it's something to do with hda2 yes?
It won't let me change it unless I delete it (as you probably know).
If it is this can I get rids of it without killing the rest of the linux
install?
Cheers
m:
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