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

[Jay Urish]

Wow, I learn something new every day...

Fred: Would a better solution to this problem be to just use minimal 
partitions?
I only have 3 or less on my boxes.. something like / and /usr and /home and 
swap ...




At 01:11 PM 3/13/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Fred James 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
>>
>>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 advance for any help you can offer
>
>Not to worry ....
>No.  You don't have a Win95 partition.  What you're seeing there is just 
>the designation for the extended partition(s), (Ext'd (LBA), of which, 
>there is only one, /dev/hda5, which starts at  cyl. 664   and ends at
>7943.
>Look again.  :)
>
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>>
>>Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 7943 cylinders
>>Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
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>>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>>/dev/hda1   *         1         4     30208+  83  Linux
>>/dev/hda2             5       559   4195800   83  Linux
>>/dev/hda3           560       663    786240   82  Linux swap
>>/dev/hda4           664      7943  55036800    f  Win95
>>/dev/hda5           664      7943  55036768+  83  Linux
>>
>>Disk /dev/hdb: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 7750 cylinders
>>Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
>>
>>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>>/dev/hdb1   *         1      7750  58589968+  83  Linux
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