I applied mkswap on root partition: help! - SOLVED

[Art Alexion]

On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:44, Daniel 'Fremen' Llewellyn wrote:
> On 05/12/06, Donatas G. <dgvirtual at akl.lt> wrote:
> > I did a normal startup, as before the catastrophe. And, I had the same
> > situation before the catastrophe - that is why, in part, I did what I did
> > to my / partition (since hda6 was /, hda5 must be swap, i thought).
> >
> > By the way, this is not the first time I get this problem of mixed up
> > partition names. I had during dapper installation on a different
> > computer. I was doing it into a computer with windows and debian, and I
> > have played with partitions a lot. So in the Dapper installer partitioner
> > I saw the partitions numbered in a wrong way. I guest the right one by
> > it"s size at that time.
>
> it seems to me, though I may be wrong, that hda6 is indeed your / when
> using the partition table as presented because you created hda5 (the
> swap) BEFORE creating the hda6 (/), but put it at the end of the free
> space. there is a limit in the partitioner that it doesn't reorder the
> entries in the partition table so that they are in the order presented
> on the disk. This means that you could have a primary partition at the
> end of your disk (say hda3 for instance) and the extended partition
> sandwiched between hda3 and the primaries earlier in the disk, which
>
> would give you something like the following in the partitioner:
> | hda1 | hda2 | extended ( hda6 : hda7 : hda5 ) | hda3

But this doesn't explain why mount/mtab and fdisk provide conflicting 
information.  I once deleted a partition that had a lot of data.  I paniced 
too much to realize it at the time, but it is probably because the device I 
associated it with looking at the output of df or at fstab was different than 
what fdisk thought it was.

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