On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 11:46, jludwig wrote: > Lets Start with this; > > Very carefully in a terminal (like dos more) -- read what you type and > be sure that's what you want to do -- <fdisk /dev/hda> > > You will get something like: > > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 7753. > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, > and could in certain setups cause problems with: > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) > > Command (m for help): > > type <p> enter -- Command (m for help): p > > You will get something like: > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes > 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7753 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 7 52888+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 8 14 52920 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 15 829 6161400 83 Linux > /dev/hda4 830 7753 52345440 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 830 7720 52095928+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 7721 7753 249448+ 82 Linux swap > > type q enter > > These are your partitions -- the MS partitions will be Vfat NTFS etc. > > Your E partition SHOULD be your last MS partition. "fdisk -l /dev/hda" will list the partition info.
