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Hi. My disk partitions appear to be moderately screwed. If I fdisk -l as root, I get the following:
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1020 8193118+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 1021 1033 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1034 14471 107940735 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 14472 14593 979965 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 14472 14593 979933+ 82 Linux swap
Everything is fine, except that I seem to have the same set of blocks set up as the last two partitions. Also, I'm not sure that the size is being reported correctly. The linux swap is the true partition, I don't know where the Win95 partition came from. The first partition has Windows 2000 on it.
Context was that I needed to copy some stuff from another windows disk. I put it in the machine, booted into windows, copied the relevant material over to the 120gig disk, then shut down and removed the hard disk. Upon booting into (rh9) linux again, I found that swap wasn't working properly.
Hi. Thanks very much. The problem is now solved. IIRC, my hard drive was previously hdc. Hence, it appears that when I had to take the machine to bits to add (and remove) the hard drive (even had to remove the memory!, so much for a 'micro' ATX board), I must have swapped the ide cables. Then, when fdisk gave what I thought was an 'extra' partition, I was looking for a way of fixing it (and using hda4 as swap), rather than just fixing the partition name.
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