how not to initialize HD
Tom H
tomh0665 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 31 18:29:43 UTC 2010
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:25 PM, JB <jb.123abc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> JB <jb.123abc <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>
> # fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xa8a8a8a8
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 4462 35840983+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2 4463 4717 2048287+ e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
> /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
> /dev/sda7 11919 12162 1951744 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda8 8095 11918 30716248+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>
> this is part 2.
> Above you see your disk layout.
> You have noticed that there is one primary partition missing - the sda3 should
> be a primary partition (even if unused free space), the extended partition
> would be sda4, and the logical partitions would be sda5, sda6, ... .
sda3 can be an extended partition.
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