Partition Magic Chokes on my Partitions
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srb at softhome.net
Thu Jun 17 16:04:24 UTC 2004
> Greetings,
>
> 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
>
>
> Al the partitions except the NTFS one were created in Partition Magic.
> I was trying to use Partition Magic to decrease the size of the NTFS
> partition, then increase the size of the extended partition and use the
> freed up space for an additional Linux partition. But when I start
> Partition Magic (it hasn't been run since the 2 Linux systems were
> installed) it spits out a bunch of complaints about the partition table.
> It offers to fix them but I'm afraid that would do something bad to the
> Linux systems.
>
> What could the Linux install programs have done to the partition table
> that offends Partition Magic?
Is this PM 8.0? Have you ever downloaded the update to 8.0.1? That *may*
help, as I had a similar issue with 8.0 but since upgrading to 8.0.1 haven't
had any problems.
Another thing I remember is not being able to resize the XP NTFS partition.
You might want to proceed with caution with the main NTFS partition that has
XP on it.
HTH.
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fedora core 2, kernel 2.6.6,
amd 2500+, ocz ddr400-512,
asus a7n8x-x, msi fx5200-128.
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