[ubuntu-in] question about Partition-Swap VISTA-LINUX.

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Mehdi <akrinar at gmail.com> wrote:
> I use 200 GB and 2 GB Ram.
> WinRe: 1.5 Gb
> C: Vista 52 Gb
> D: Linux 24
> E: swap  2.4
> F: data  107 GB
>
> now i using Vista & Linux together without any problem but i want reinstall
> my Vista again & i think my harddisk partition is not good and I do not know
> the right type of partition in that situation.

have you tried to check the HD using Palimpsest Disk Utility. I too
had a HDproblem and what exactly the problem was no software could
tell me, except that there were too many bad blocks and that the HD
would fail any time - so i had to replace / upgrade to a larger HD :-)

>
> You can have only two primary partitions and the rest need to be under
> a logical partition.
> I think we can have 4 Primary partitions.

I think you may be write ?? the 4th partition while primary in nature
will be the extended one

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I'm sure that my current partition is not good.  see it again. i use the
> Fdisk -l in terminal:
>
> Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1         192     1536000   27  Unknown
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sda2   *         192        6948    54272000    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3            6949        9987    24410767+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda4            9988       24321   115137855    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            9988       10352     2931831   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda6           10353       24321   112204800    7  HPFS/NTFS
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> see this one, I use the parted /dev/sda print
>
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
>  1      1049kB  1574MB  1573MB  primary   ntfs
>  2      1574MB  57.1GB  55.6GB  primary   ntfs            boot
>  3      57.1GB  82.1GB  25.0GB  primary   ext3
>  4      82.1GB  200GB   118GB   extended
>  5      82.1GB  85.1GB  3002MB  logical   linux-swap(v1)
>  6      85.1GB  200GB   115GB   logical   ntfs
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> But my Vista partiton showing:
>  My Current partition:
>  1. WinRe(EISA Configuration) Primary
>  2. c: Vista  Primary
>  3. d: /Linux primary
>  4. e: Swap  primary
>  5. f: data     Logical driver

If you have Wince RE why don't you back up your data and then recover
your Wistaa and then install Ubuntu.


If you have data on F: back it up first and then using gparted you can
merge the last 3 partitions and shift the data to the front of the
partitions.

The restart your partitioning - by leaving some space for F and then
use the rest of the partition ad extended under which linux can be
installed.
and make the partitions as i suggested earlier. boot /root / home / swap

Your partitioning could look like this
Wince RE Primary
Wistaa - Primary
F: Data  - Primary
Extended
/boot
swap
/root
/home

If you intended to use linux a lot i suggest keeping f data small and
keep most space for home.

While M$ wo;t easily see anything on LInux you can be sure Linux can
see and access (not run) everything on any wincedows platform

ram