Hi all,
Thanks to Islandwolf and Lach for getting me this far.
I must change a partition to FAT to have 1.5 Gigs of files available when
the machine is booted into NT Server. Its an 8.5 Gig Maxtor IDE. Changing
this partition to FAT is proving a steep learning curve as I don't know how
to work out what the partition numbers are.
Allow me to say that I think fdisk may be reading the filetype incorrectly.
hda1 is ntfs as is hda5 . hda6 is mounted as /samba so I believe it to be
ext2 but fdisk doesn't agree calling it OS/2 HPFS.
My objective is to format /dev/hda6 as FAT, copy the backup onto it again,
reboot into NT, retrieve the Exchange Server priv.ebd I need, copy it to
/dev/hda6 and thus have it available via samba after I return to Linux.
Problem is, I need to know partition mumbers.
Difficult to say what my partition numbers are so let me quote the output of
p in fdisk:
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1027.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 261 2096451 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/hda2 262 1023 6120765 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 262 522 2096451 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/hda6 523 783 2096451 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/hda7 784 792 72261 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda8 793 1023 1855476 83 Linux native
Oytput of t:
Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-8):
Where is the partition number?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> islandwolf
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 April 1999 18:11
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Format a partition as FAT
>
>
> Patrick Kirk wrote:
>
> > I tried that. fdisk wants a partition number. How do I work that out?
>
> Well i'd recommend 3, but what are your partitions so far?
>
>
> > > t as in 'type'
>
> --
> islandwolf
> "live from the den of ubiquity"
>
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