how not to initialize HD

[JB]

Paul Cartwright <ale <at> pcartwright.com> writes:

> 
> > and give me display of:
> > # fdisk -l
> 
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>  /dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>  /dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended
>  Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>  /dev/sda5            4718        5961     9989120   83  Linux
>  /dev/sda6            5962        8094    17133291   83  Linux 
> 
> so, I just deleted my swap partition. I can safely reboot?
Paul,
please reboot to file the table and return to Linux terminal.
Then give me displays once again of:
# fdisk -l
# cfdisk -Ps

We are close to some resolution, either way.
JB