On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Rajesh Deo wrote:
> I have observed a queer thing with my RHL6.1 install and/or Win98. My
> partition structure is: hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6> with Linux but DOS FDISK
> recognises hda2 as EXT DOS type of partition. It can not access it though
> (which is good!).
your partition structure is hda1 - primary partition, hda2 - extended
partition, hda5, hda6 - logical partitions in the extended partition.
These are file system independent. Your primary partitions can run from 1
to 4, while logical partitions can go from 5 up. The reason that dos
cannot access hda2 <hda5 hda6> is that the logical partitions are non-dos.
You can use a utility like e2fssomething that came on one of the earlies
chip cd's if you want to read your linux partn from dos.
> The thing that causes some worry is CHKDSK/F in autoexec.bat reports
> different amount of free space in hda1 each time I boot into win98 even if
> no files are written or deleted to c: (hda1). The total partition size is
How do you know that no files are written to? Windows writes files to
disk and deletes files from disk all the time. There are loads of temp
files created all the time and the windows swap file also changes size
dynamically. You cannot predict what the state will be after a shutdown.
The registry may change, even if it is just a small insignificant change.
The way the win fat is structured, files must have sizes in multiples of
the cluster size. So if you have 32KB clusters (switch to FAT32 (I know,
you already have)) and a file is 1 KB, it still occupies 32KB. If a file
was originally 30KB, and grew to 33KB, it's disk usage would grow from
32KB to 64KB. Chkdsk will definitely show different results.
> however always same (4192MB, which is good again :)). Scandisk gives no
> errors.
Thats cause the partition table is never changed, nor is the file
structure or system.
> Do anyone of you think something is fishy?
Yeah definitely, your OS is not compatible with itself.
> My partitioning and install sequence was as follows,
>
> 1. scandisk --> defrag 6.2 GB HDD --> fips --> c:(4192M) d:(2000M)
> 2. dos format new partition (now d:)
> 3. delete d: with dos FDISK
Why format it if you are going to delete it anyway? You didn't have to do
this.
> 4. install RHL6.1 from PCQ CD --> custom install --> diskdruid
> 5. hda1 (untouched) --> added hda5 as '/' and hda6 as 'swap'
> 6. clean install, no dual boot with LILO, booting from floppy
Philip
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