laurent....no, his Extended partition has all of the logical
partitions (hda5 through hda10, cylinders 10 through 1022) in
it. But let's fix your problem.
In fdisk you need to delete had5 and then hda2 and then add a
primary partition starting at 278 and ending on 556 and make
it a type 82 (linux swap) partition. This will use up all
available primary partitions on that drive but it is the
simplest and least destructive solution.
Alan
P.S. by the way that's a pretty big swap file?!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On 31 May, Lee Willis wrote:
> > Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> hda2 is an extended partition, both according to the file system ID and what
> >> it does: it holds other, logical, partitions within it. hda5 is labeled 7,
> >> NTFS or HPFS, but it really is an extended partition. I don't know how it
> >> got created or labled, but it should never have been created, and, having
> >> been created an extended partition, it should have been IDed as such.
> >
> > As far as I can see, and from what I understand it's a logical
> > partition, and it is perfectly legal!. Logical partitions are IDed as
> > what they are (In this case NTFS), exactly the same way as primary
> > partitions are. The very fact that it is "hda5" says that it is logical,
> > it doesn't need any further IDing!
> >
>
> So is the fact that my extended partition appears as a drive to my NT, and
> that part of that partition is used for linux swap a problem? The way
> Charles's drive looks like this:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 9 18112+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda2 10 1022 2042208 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 10 368 723712+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda6 369 727 723712+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda7 728 858 264064+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda8 859 989 264064+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda9 990 1022 66496+ 82 Linux swap
>
> Notice that his extended partition has *nothing* in it. All the data for the
> partition is contained in logical partitions.
>
> With my setup, it seems to me like the extended partition is seen by NT as
> containing data in it.... Actually, I'll try rebooting in NT to see what
> size the partition has to see if the 240-od MB of swap I allocated are the
> size of the D drive on NT. If so, that would be my problem right there. I'll
> have to reconfigure the extended partition on with Partition Magic to fix
> this. I'll send another message once I've done this.
>
> L
>
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