Hi, -----Original Message----- From: Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. [SMTP:smolnar@jadeinc.com] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 9:29 AM
SuSE v6.3 on a pentium with a 20 GB HD (along with two others) installed as the primary slave.
I want to change the type of the last three partitions on the 20 GB HD (it's partitioned into 10 DOS partitions) from DOS to Linux (I have RH v6.1 on one of the other HDs on the platform) in order to install v6.3. I had started the process yesterday and was about half way through the install when there was a power failure and the machine rebooted into W95. At that point I discovered that W95 wasn't reading the changed partition table.
It is possible that the new partition table may not have been written when the power went down. I am not sure when YaST invokes fdisk to write the partition table so upon reboot '95 was looking at the older one.
I use PowerDesk 4.0 on that machine (on both of my machines as a matter of fact, although first on Igor, the pentium) because of the unexplained failure of the original MS file manager. If I go back into YaST and change the linux partitions back to DOS, PowerDesk will read the restored partitions, after reformatting ( with the new feature of not supporting long file names) as before.
Do you happen to know what type the partitions were originally? The standard DOS (fat16) is type 6, but there is also a type e that fdisk reports to be Win95 FAT16 (LBA). I don't know if it is significant but maybe there is a problem there. My understanding of W95 long file names (on fat16 anyway) is that there is a standard 8.3 file name and the remainder of the file name is contained in extra directory entries with a link between the two (I think OS/2 kept these and other extended attributes in a separate file). The extra entries/links can get lost fairly easily which is why you don't want to run old utilities on these partitions, defrag from dos 6.22 for example. Perhaps something similiar has happened? What did you use to do the reformat? Tim -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/