Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Aug 1999 21:47:11 +0400 (EEST) | From | Pavel Roskin <> | Subject | Inconsistent partition reporting |
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Hello!
I'm using Linux-2.2.10/i386, but I can try a newer version if necessary.
My problem is purely cosmetical. The kernel prints the following line during the boot:
hdc: [PTBL] [1027/255/63] hdc1 < hdc5 hdc6 > hdc2! hdc3 hdc4 < hdc7 hdc8 >
fdisk reports for the same disk: /dev/hdc1 1 255 2048256 5 Extended /dev/hdc2 * 256 498 1951897+ a5 BSD/386 /dev/hdc3 499 511 104422+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdc4 512 766 2048287+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc5 1 128 1028097 83 Linux /dev/hdc6 129 255 1020096 83 Linux
You can see two defects:
1) The DOS-style extended partition is printed without any sign denoting its role, while the BSD-style partition name is followed by '!'
2) The children of the DOS-style extended partition are printed immediately after their parent, while the children of the BSD-style partition go to the end.
Pavel Roskin
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