RE: Fedora core 3 / XP dual boot

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--- "Irving, Dave" <Dave.Irving@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Really sorry to be a pain...
> I've just got in to qtparted, and I've noticed that
> I've already got a
> small 'hidden' partition.
> My details look like this:
> 
> /dev/hda:
> 
>    Partition  Type Status Size    Start   End
> 01 /dev/hda1  ntfs Active 55.88GB 0.03MB  55.83GB
> 02 /dev/hda-1 free Hidden 7.84MB  55.88GB 55.89GB
> 
> >From the posts earlier, I was expecting a single
> active partition.
> Should I just go ahead and resize partition 01
> (/dev/hda)? I have no
> idea what partition 02 (/dev/hda-1) is for!!! Will
> resizing 01 with 02
> around screw stuff up?
> 
> Many thanks for any help,
> 
> Dave
> 
No you won't screw anything up by resizing partition
01, the free space (02) will be added to the free
space you create by resizing 01.

I don't know why they do it, but on lots of pc's I've
seen a small hidden free space partition at the end of
the drive but you don't have to care about it.

Good luck
Bart

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