From: Vesa-Pekka Palmu (vessu@dlc.fi)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 16:39:46 CEST
> > On my laptop I have this mu 9R5 installation, disk with following
> > partitions 1 Primary (/dev/hda1 housing dos and thinkpad utilities),
> > 1 Extended (/dev/hda2) in wich are: two ŽLinux-native pratitions
> > (/dev/hda5 & /dev/hda6) one linix-swap (/dev/hda3)
> >
> > The proplem is that fdisk reports partitions that are on the extended
> > partition incorrectly, it says that they are /dev/hda5 & /dev/hda6.
> > The kernel gives out correct partition information at boot time, my
> > root is on /dev/hda5 (wich doen't exist acording to fdisk...) and my
> > /home is on /dev/hda6
> My first question is "what happened to hda4?" (Used to hold the extended
> partition table, IIRC)
Well hare is the output from fdisk I hope that this helps
Disk /dev/hda: 10 heads, 34 sectors, 989 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 340 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 151 25653 4 DOS 16-bit <32M
/dev/hda2 273 273 989 121890 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 152 152 272 20570 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 423 423 989 96373 83 Linux native
/dev/hda7 273 273 422 25482+ 83 Linux native
So the hda6 is really know as hda5 by kernel and the hda7 is realy
hda6
> Second question is "what's the conflict -- both say hda5 & hda6?"
The fdisk says hda6 & hda7, kernel says hda5 & hda6
> Third question is "what, exactly, does fdisk say about all of the partitions?"
Consult the output.
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