Today, I came across an interesting observation about fdisk on Redhat
and on SuSE. It is about how the two versions of fdisk handle unallocated
space. Where as Redhat Version didn't report unallocated space as a
partition, the SuSE's fdisk did.
Here is a snapshot of harddisk..
| hda1 | free | part-1| part-2|
|<--Pri->|<-- extended --->|
the free space above is just a free, unallocated space. It's not even an
unformatted partition.
Here is a snapshot of Redhat's fdisk.
/dev/hda1
/dev/hda5
/dev/hda6
(there is no mention of free space)
and Here is SuSE's fdisk
/dev/hda1
/dev/hda5 -> refers to free space.
/dev/hda6 -> part-1
/dev/hda7 -> part-2.
i am curious to know if anyone experienced this before?
Because of ths difference, I lost one partition today, while installing SuSE