This is my first post. Thank you all in advance for your help and your patience.
I've set up an old machine as a dual boot Win7/Ubuntu 12.04 machine. I've partitioned the single hard drive for Windows and Ubuntu to have their own partitions, with a shared NTFS partition (of 15 GB) intended for Downloads, Documents, etc. Unfortunately Windows doesn't recognize the filesystem on the shared partition.
I used parted (see below) to verify that I had actually set up the filesystem (using mkntfs). I later used fdisk (see below) to view the id of the partitions. Then I noticed that parted indicates that the 15 GB partition is NTFS, while fdisk indicates that it's a Linux partition. Notice, too, that the filesystem for the second partition is inconsistent.
I've read (
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...6/#post5328291) that the information given by fdisk isn't always correct.
My questions are: Which of these (parted or fdisk) is more likely correct, and how do I know? And could whatever it is that's causing this problem be the reason Windows isn't recognizing the filesystem?
Thanks for your help!
Code:
$ sudo parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA WDC WD800JD-60LS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 40.0GB 40.0GB primary ntfs boot
2 40.0GB 60.0GB 20.0GB primary ext4
3 60.0GB 75.2GB 15.2GB primary ntfs
4 75.2GB 80.0GB 4801MB primary linux-swap(v1)
Code:
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ca88f
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 78151679 39074816 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 78151680 117225471 19536896 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 117225472 146923519 14849024 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 146923520 156301311 4688896 82 Linux swap / Solaris