Partition Magic Chokes on my Partitions
Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems
politby at sun.com
Thu Jun 17 16:34:01 UTC 2004
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:
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>>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
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>The partitions start on the same block with which the previous partition
>ends?
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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?
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>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.
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Is there a Linux based tool available which does roughly the same thing
as Partition Magic?
/POL
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