Re: Help for partitions

["Soumyanath Chatterjee" <soumya_chatt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do this
Main partitions
DOS partition [1.2 G] - hda1
Raw Space [600M]    - mark as hda3 - Linux native
DOS Partition [1.8G ] - hda2
Raw Space [600M]    - hda4 - Linux extended
now hda4 gets broken into
hda6 - Linux mative
hda7 - Linux swap

Hope this will work ;-)

- - Soumya
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Mahamood Hussain <mhussain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux India Mailing List <linux-india@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 7:51 AM
Subject: Help for partitions


> Hi all,
> I've got a *major* problem.
> Okay, first I'll give you the low down :
> I run a P233 (Celeron), Win 95 + Linux Red Hat 5.0. Win 95 has 2
partitions -C:->1.8G and D:->1.8G and Linux 600M (I know you are all going
to hate me for giving Linux so little). Saw Red Hat 6, loved it, wanted to
increase disk allocation for Linux. Used
>  Fips 2.0 to fip C: (I wouldn't have been crying for help if Fips could
handle extended DOS partitions, but it can't) and got an extra 600M. If you
view my HDD as a linear table it looks like this:
>
> +---------------------------------------------------+
> |DOS partition |Raw Space |DOS Partition |Raw Space |
> |1.2G(C:)      |(600M)    |1.8G (D:)     |(600M)    |
> +---------------------------------------------------+
>
> I want to use the two raw 'partitions' for Linux - One for the base and
another for juicy utils like Gimp, Netscape, WordPerfect and the like.
>
> I used 'fdisk' that comes with the RedHat inst. The partition table looks
like this (Before creating the linux partitions) :
>
> Device Boot Start End System      Size
> --------------------------------------
> hda1   *    1     192  DOS        1.2G
> hda2        231   460  Ext Dos    1.8G
> hda5        231   460  DOS        1.8G
>
>
> I now need 3 partitions (right?) - 2 Linux native partitions and one Linux
Swap. But as you can see only partitions 3 and 4 are available. 'fdisk' does
not allow me to create >5 partitions (quite understandable).
>
> My questions are :
> 1] Will an Extended Linux partition help me out so that I can have 2
logical partitions in it - One for swap and one as native?
> 2] If it will, then how do I create one - fdisk does not allow changing
Linux Native (Code 0x83) to Linux Extended (Code 0x85).
>
>
> Thanx for having the patience to go thru this.
> Thanx again
> Moody
>
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