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I have 2 windows partition labled C and D before I installed mandrake and both are NTFS format.
And after I installed mandrake, the D partition has lost 1gb size. In windowxp, I can see the full size of D is 9 gb and 8gb is free,but I have nothing stored in it.
where does the 1gb go?
I want to format the D to FAT32 format to make it linux writeable.If it is bacause mandrake installed its swap partition on this partition, how can I resize this partition to seprate swap partition out with the current partition?
( PQ partition magic fails to open after installed mandrake and also windowxp can not format the D disk.)

Hi,

you should resize the disk you partitioned under linux with parted.

The missing 1Gb could very well be because you have used a journaling filesystem (reiserfs, ext3, xfs)
this uses some amount of space for the journal....

It could also be a rounding error. Remember, HDs use a different counting scheme from the internal computer. In RAM a MB is a MegaByte and is 1024 bytes in size. In an HD, an MB is a 1000 bytes in size.

I thought that the difference between 1000 and 1024 was only apparent when considering the manufacturer's specifications? I was under the impression that drive manufacturers used 1000 whereas all OSs and filesystems use 1024.

Which partition have you got in your fstab for the SWAP?