windows partition problem
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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?:newbie: 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? (:cry: PQ partition magic fails to open after installed mandrake and also windowxp can not format the D disk.) :Pengy: |
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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.
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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? |
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