Partitioning question

[Paul Puschmann]

Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> schrieb am Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:21:36PM +0800:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Please help me to understand what is following partition;
> 
> /dev/hda5   228M  4.1M  212M   2% /media/hda5
> 
> 
> At time of installation I created;
> 
> /boot  255M  (p)
> /      8G    (p)
> /home  10G   (ext)
> swap   1G    (ext)
> 
> 
> Now they are shown as;
> 
> $ sudo fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1               1        2342    18812083+   5  Extended
> /dev/hda5   *           1          31      248944+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda6              32        1004     7815591   83  Linux
> /dev/hda7            1005        2220     9767488+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda8            2221        2342      979933+  82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> * end *
> 
> 

You didn't create primary partitions but extended with logical
partitions.

Boot Knoppix, do an backup of your data, corrct your partitions,
restore the data, edit /etc/fstab and reinstall your bootloader.

Paul
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