aftermath of an ubuntu installation

[Donny George]

i didnt really understand you, did u mean to say that the error is not
really important and that i could try to access hda5 after rebooting.

don


On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Donny George wrote:
> > re-reading the partition table failed with error 16. device or resource
> > busy the kernel still uses old table. the new table will be used at the
> > next reboot.
>
> OK, you should reboot before you can check your hda5 for your data.
>
> > at this point i notice that the partition hda2 was represented as W95
> > extended (LBA). does this possibly mean that i should have rather tried
> > converting hda2 rather than hda 5.
>
> No, hda2 is the extended partition - if you change its type, both hda5 and
> hda6 would be lost due to the missing container. It isn't important what
> sort of extended partition it is.
>
>
> Nils
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