[NTLUG:Discuss] Win95 Ext'd (LBA) on my Linux box - where'd that come from

[Fred James]

Jay Urish wrote:

> At 12:32 PM 3/13/2003 -0600, you wrote:
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>> Short history:
>> box has 2 60GB drives in it
>> It was a RH 7.1, and the person who set it up had partitioned part of 
>> hda for /, part for /swap, and then "globed together" the rest of hda 
>> and all of hdb to make one big partition, using some form of RAID, 
>> and mounted it as /dev/md0
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>> Well that broke, and since then it has become a RH 7.3 box with no 
>> "cross volume" partitions or RAID - but it looks like I might have a 
>> legacy problem:
>> "fdisk -l" returns a display (see below) that indicates the 
>> "extended" partition is Win95 LBA.  I just went through a 2 day fsck 
>> on the /home partition (hda5) and I think (can't prove it) that the 
>> original problem that broke the RAID could have been on hda as well.  
>> By the way, the RH 7.3 install was a total "clean install", so I 
>> would have assume no legacy problems, but I have never heard of a 
>> Win95 partition on a Linux box without it being purposely installed.  
>> [By the way, "fdisk -l" on another of my RH 7.3 machines (also with 
>> extended partition) did not reveal any hints of the MS world]
>>
>> So, can anyone shed some light on what is going on here, and if I am 
>> facing a "future of problems" with this Win95 Ext'd partition.
>> Thanks in advan
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> If I were in your shoes, I would back up all important data and wipe 
> the drives and re-partition. All this software IDE raid stuff is horse 
> pookey.
> If you want a RAID, you get some scsi disks and a raid controller. I 
> have had to try and fix several of these rigged up raids and it is a 
> nightmare from hell.
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> Jay Urish       W5GM            Jack of all Trades. Ace of None.
> The wandering UNIXWOLF
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RAID issue - total agreement on my part - that's why when it broke I 
wasn't too interested in trying to rebuild it.
Win95 Ext'd (LBA) issue - this was a complete, repartition, format, 
check for bad blocks, and do it in ext3 filesystem (instead of ext2 that 
it was in), so where did that come from, and will it cause problems?  I 
did notice that the RH 7.3 box on which the extended partition is not 
Win95, is using the ext2 filesystem.

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