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

[Mehdi]

Thanks,
yeah I use the Palimpsest Disk Utility and showing :

This has many Bad
5. Sector Reallocated Sector Count   warning   206 sector

before it does not show & I think that it concern to the bad Partition!
Maybe I'm wrong..I'm not sure

As you said I can install the Linux in the Extend partition!!
Is it Ok??

Wince RE Primary
Wistaa - Primary
F: Data  - Primary
Extended
/boot
swap

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On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
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>
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