how not to initialize HD

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Tom H <tomh0665 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:25 PM, JB <jb.123abc <at> yahoo.com> wrote:
> > JB <jb.123abc <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> >
> > # fdisk -l
> >
> > ...
> >   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/sda2            4463        4717     2048287+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
> > /dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended
> > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> > /dev/sda5            4718        5961     9989120   83  Linux
> > /dev/sda6            5962        8094    17133291   83  Linux
> > /dev/sda7           11919       12162     1951744   82  Linux swap/Solaris
> > /dev/sda8            8095       11918    30716248+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> >
> sda3 can be an extended partition.

Tom,
I was not sure about it ... I thought that might confuse the partition table
layout logic. I wanted to make it "by the book" as much as possible.
OK. Let's assume that your are right. That would not necessitate touching
sda2 with W95 FAT16.

Paul, you are following the thread, are you :-) .

Tom,
now there is a problem with Extended partition ending on 12162 boundary, which
is end of sda7, and not sda8 as it should be.
What do you think can we do to fold sda8 into that Extended partition without
remaking the Extended partition entirely ?
Perhaps we can fool it (or it is the right thing to do ...) by saving sda8
(W95 FAT32) contents somewhere (like I suggested previously for sda2) and
delete sda8. Would that fix the table (at least so it would become workable).
After that we could try a trick again by incorporating that free space into
sda7 so that allignments would be correct once again.
What do you think ?
JB


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