My understanding is that when you create an extended partition that will
contain both Win and Linux logical partitions, you have to make sure the Win
logical partition is first. I'm not sure why, or what happens if you don't,
but maybe somebody else can shed some light on this. Am I completely
misinformed?
----- Original Message -----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Partition setup help
> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > ... what? This should definitely not happen! Windows ignores partition
> > ttypes that aren't FAT or FAT32. Windows can indeed see the partitions,
> > but fdisk for DOS is so limited that it doesn't display them correctly.
> > If Windows does not recognize the partition type, it ignores the
> > partition. I've never seen Windows try to "fix" a Linux filesystem.
When
> > did this happen to you?
> >
> Never happened to me....just read some horror stories of
> some people on this or one of the other lists who said it
> happened to them.
> >
> > You should not create partitions for Linux
> > under Windows. Well, you can, > but you'll have to edit
> > them later. Windows will automatically set the >
> > partition type to FAT. In order to create an ext2
> > filesystem on the > partition, you first must change the
> > partition type to Linux. It's better > to simply not
> > create partitions from Windows' fdisk unless they are >
> > partitions to be used by Windows.
> AMEN! :-)
> > You sure are going about this the long way.
> > Why create partitions when > you're going to delete right
> > away? It's not like you have to fill up > the whole disk
> > for DOS or anything. Just create the partitions you
> > need > for DOS in DOS, then format them and install your
> > OS, then install Linux. > Disk druid or fdisk will let you
> > create the Linux partitions during the > installation.
> > DOS/Windows should not try to touch your partitions at
> > all. The only problem might be if they have a FAT label
> > in the partition table, > but a non-FAT filesystem on
> > them. That may cause Windows to "fix" the > partitions.
> > But it shouldn't happen, as long as you stick to creating
> > an > OS's partitions with the right tool- DOS fdisk for
> > DOS partitions, Linux > fdisk (or disk druid) for Linux
> > partitions.
> >
> I figure that's probably what happens...people create a
> Linux partition with DOS/Windows FDISK and then just create
> a FAT32 file system in there.... so it confuses Windows. :-)
> John
>
