Hidden partition

[Vram]

On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 09:50 -0400, Ed Fletcher wrote:
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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.
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> > On 7/16/05, *Myron Slover* <tewlmanster at gmail.com
> > <mailto:tewlmanster at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> >     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
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> You have three primary partitions so that's not the problem. 





He has four primary partitions..  The fourth primary <hda4> is special
type of primary called extended....    




HTH

Vram