FYI: Help for partitions

["Avinash S. Chinchalkar" <avinashc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

	I saw may querries regarding partitioning, I have also posted a
message sometime back about 'Ranish Partitioner'.

It is a very good freeware (HATS OFF TO THE AUTHOR), you can grab it from

Mikhail Ranish
ranish@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.intercom.com/~ranish  or
http://www.ml.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~mranish

Regards,
Avi.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mahamood Hussain [mailto:mhussain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 7:52 AM
> To: Linux India Mailing List
> 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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