Paul Cartwright <ale <at> pcartwright.com> writes: > > On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote: > /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) > > Note that fdisk shows Extended partition as sda4, but cfdisk skips it. It > > is a matter of formatting the displays by both. The layouts were done by > > these Linux utilities. > > /dev/sda5 is / and /dev/sda6 is /home. Can I just delete sda3 & sda5 without > touching /home on sda6? or will deleting sda3 remove everything... If so, > that wouldn't both me that much. > What i really want to end up with is XP on /dev/sda1 and Fedora on SOMETHING.. > Paul, this is your new layout (after removing sda2), please use it from now on: > # fdisk -l Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 4462 35840983+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /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) To answer your question - do not attempt to delete sda3 (extended partition), fdisk would remove everyting that is included in it (sda3 thru sda8). I see that the removal of sda2 did not solve our problems; it even complains about partition 2, which does not exist now: > # cfdisk -Ps > FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial > cylinder We will try to solve the second thing that may be the problem, that is the out-of-order sda7 and sda8 within sda3 extended partition. Before doing that please save your sda8 (W95 FAT32) data somewhere (Win XP, CD-RW, CD-R, external disk, ...). It will be destroyed later on. Let me know when you have done it so we can go ahead with remaining stuff. 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
