extended / logical partition
Ed Wilts
ewilts at ewilts.org
Mon May 10 23:27:28 UTC 2004
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 03:48:42PM -0700, JCA wrote:
> Here is my drive. What I was trying to do is replace the Win95 with a
> Linux ext3 file system on /dev/hda4. So there is no easy way to do it
> with fdisk?
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 2416 19406488+ 0 Empty
> /dev/hda2 * 2417 2429 104422+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 2430 2462 265072+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda4 2463 4865 19302097+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5 2463 4865 19302066 83 Linux
The problem is that hda4 and hda5 use the same physical space - hence
the start and end blocks overlap. You can't wipe out hda4 without also
wiping out hda5. I'm not sure what you expect to get out of formatting
that partition - you certainly won't get any more usable space.
I did a quick google search for you to give you an introduction to
partitions, and here's a good link to read:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-partitions.html
The link may have wrapped so watch for that.
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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