Paul Cartwright <ale <at> pcartwright.com> writes: > ... Hi, great job ! I want to do some things with your disk, but in a controlled manner - please do not get excited, just deliberately follow the instructions. We will try to save the disk (which seems to have its partition table screwed up), first "the easy way". I give you a layout of my disk so you can understand what the problem is by comparing mine and yours. [root@localhost jb]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x3db012b3 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 2607 20933608+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 2607 3626 8192000 83 Linux /dev/sda3 3626 4551 7426960 83 Linux /dev/sda4 4551 4864 2517480 5 Extended /dev/sda5 4551 4734 1466608+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 4734 4864 1050808+ 83 Linux You see, a disk can have max 4 primary partitions, but if you need more partitions, then you prepare 3 primary partions and one extended partion, which in turn you will divide into logical partitions as needed. On my disk there are 3 primary partions (/dev/sda1 thru /dev/sda3), then you see the extended partition (/dev/sda4; it is a marker only, like saying here begins an extended partition to the end of disk). Then that extended partition is redefined (!) by the logical partitions (/dev/sda5, /dev/sda6; there is no free space left). Please get familiar with this. This was part 1. I will follow shortly with part 2, where we will change your disk layout. Do not do anyting with your disk in the meantime (I will need it exactly as you reported it previously) ! Stay tuned. JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
