Re: Partition Magic Chokes on my Partitions

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

Am Do, den 17.06.2004 schrieb Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic -
Java System Software - Sun Microsystems um 17:52:

Here's the problem: I have a triple boot system on this laptop - Win XP Pro, Fedora Core 2, and Sun's Java Desktop System (SuSE based). Here's the output of the fdisk -l command:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 3335 26785048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Windows XP, NTFS
/dev/hda2 3335 4864 12285000 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) Extended, containing hda5,6,7,8
/dev/hda5 3335 4100 6146248+ 83 Linux Fedora Core 2 / ext3
/dev/hda6 4100 4228 1028128+ 82 Linux swap Fedora Core 2 swap
/dev/hda7 * 4228 4789 4505728+ 83 Linux Sun JDS / reiserfs
/dev/hda8 4789 4864 604768+ 82 Linux swap Sun JDS swap

The partitions start on the same block with which the previous partition
ends?

Now that you mention it, that actually seems to be the case. Maybe this is what PM chokes on? Strange, since PM created the partitions in the first place.

What could the Linux install programs have done to the partition table that offends Partition Magic?

Such behavious is well known. I don't recommend using Partition Magic
when using a Linux partition tool too. PQMagic has often other opinions
about the structure of the partitions / partition table.

Is there a Linux based tool available which does roughly the same thing as Partition Magic?

/POL

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