[KLUG Members] partition question

[Eric Beversluis]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 16:40 -0500, greenproc wrote:
> Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > When I installed XP on my Sony dual boot I created one partition/drive
> > in NTFS. I created another that I wanted to format later as FAT32 for
> > passing files between XP and Linux.
> > 
> > Then when I installed Fedora I let it automatically set up the
> > partitions. What's confusing is that now when I look at 'My Computer' in
> > XP it sees three partitions
> 
> *Use 'Disk Management'*  -- Right click 'My Computer' -> Manage.  In the
>  console tree on the left, select 'Disk Management'.  This will give you
> more of the information needed.  Compare that to what you see in
> 'Logical Drives' within the same console tree on the left.

Great. I was looking for something like this on Linux--apparently
DiskDruid only exists in the install, at least for Fedora (Mandrake 10.1
had something like that in their graphical admin tools). I vaguely
remembered something like that on XP but was looking in the wrong place.


> , C: (which is formatted NTFS) and D: and G:,
> > neither of them being formatted. I would think I should only see the D:
> > partitions. My problem is that I don't know which I should format as
> > FAT32 and whether, say, the G: drive actually includes some of the Linux
> > stuff.
> > 
> > 'fdisk -l' on Linux gives this printout:
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1   *           1        1785    14337981    7  HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/hda2            1786        4864    24732067+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > /dev/hda5            1786        2295     4096543+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
> > /dev/hda6            2296        2308      104391   83  Linux
> > /dev/hda7            2309        4864    20531038+  8e  Linux LVM
> > 
<snip>

> So, in windows your first primary is C, your first "logical drive
> '/dev/hda5'" should be D (FAT16) -- but it is not, thanks to your first
> CD/DVD device probably being D?

"Computer Management" shows 
C: 13.7 GB NTFS---just what one would expect. = /dev/hda1, I take it
D:  3.9 GB "healthy" (Win Explorer shows this as RAW) --- this is what I
want to format at FAT32, then.   = /dev/hda5, I take it.
[No drive letter]: 102MB"Healthy (Unknown Partition)"  = /dev/hda6
(Computer Management shows this as 100% free....?)
E:  Probably was assigned to a previously connected CD/DVD device; also
various possibly PCMCIA/external CDROM or USB external HDDs that may
have been connected in this installation's short life.
F:  Sony Memory Stick
G:  19.6GB "Healthy" (Win Explorer shows as RAW.)  = /dev/hda7 = Main
Linux partition (Fedora didn't set up a separate swap partition?)

Strange that Windows assigned a drive letter to hda5 and hda 7 but not
to hda6.
> > 

<snip>
> No.  It looks like it did everything properly.  In retrospect, things
> could have been easier by setting up your FAT partition in XP, and also
> formatting it within XP, before installing Fedora.

Probably. 
> 

<snip>
> How did you expect Fedora to handle the second partition you set up for
> XP?  

I was assuming that since it was defined as a partition Fedora would
ignore it (maybe I wasn't thinking explicitly about its being
unformatted) and that Windows wouldn't see anything that was "Linux."

<snip>
> 
> > 
Thanks.
> > EB
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