Hidden partition

[Ed Fletcher]

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Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
> i am no expert and probably wrong
> but maybe you should try to checks if your primary partition limit (4)
> has been reached.
> if do try changing one of the primary partions to logical ones.
> 
> On 7/16/05, *Myron Slover* <tewlmanster at gmail.com
> <mailto:tewlmanster at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I set up my harddrive with Fedoracore4 and Ubuntu. I have a 80 gig hd.
>     I set them up with each an individual home partition,root partition,
>     and boot. They share swap.
>       Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
>     16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155114 cylinders
>     Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> 
>        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>     /dev/hda1   *           1         406      204592+  83  Linux
>     /dev/hda2             407       30882    15359904   83  Linux
>     /dev/hda3           30883       51199    10239768   83  Linux
>     /dev/hda4           51200      102108    25658136    5  Extended
>     /dev/hda5           51200       53280     1048792+  82  Linux swap /
>     Solaris
>     /dev/hda6           53281       53668      195520+  83  Linux
>     /dev/hda7           53669       73044     9765472+  83  Linux
>     /dev/hda8           73045      102108    14648224+  83  Linux
>     Qparted lists dev/hda9 as being a hidden partition. I saved 25 gigs to
>     install another Linux distro. I cannot use the 25 gigs I saved because
>     it is flagged as hidden. I installed fc4 first and then Ubuntu. Ubuntu
>     labeled the 25 gigs as hidden. I guess I need to learn more about
>     formatting hardrives. How do I flag the partition as not hidden?
>     Thanks,
>     Myron Slover

You have three primary partitions so that's not the problem.  I
haven't run into anything like a hidden partition before, so I'm not
sure what the cause is.  However, Google gave me this link:

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html

It lists Type 93 as a hidden Linux partition.  Did you perhaps type
93 instead of 83 when defining the partition?

HTH,
Ed
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