Partition Magic Chokes on my Partitions

[Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems]

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:
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>>   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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